He and his twin brother, Merle Black, who was a professor of political science at Emory University, have written several books on the politics of the South and the United States as a whole. Their last book together is Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics (2008).
Works
Politics and Society in the South, Harvard University Press, paperback 1989. ISBN9780674689596
The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected, 1992 (with Merle Black)
The Rise of Southern Republicans, Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN0-674-00728-X
Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics, 2008