{"product_id":"imperfect-unions-diana-rebekkah-paulin-9780816670994","title":"Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperfect Unions\u003c\/i\u003e examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black-white binary that informed them in a wide variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War I--by Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dixon, J. Rosamond Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, William Dean Howells, and many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaulin's \"miscegenated reading practices\" reframe the critical cultural roles that drama and fiction played during this significant half century. She demonstrates the challenges of crossing intellectual boundaries, echoing the crossings--of race, gender, nation, class, and hemisphere--that complicated the black-white divide at the turn of the twentieth century and continue to do so today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperfect Unions\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how our ongoing discussions about race are also dialogues about nation formation. As the United States attempted to legitimize its own global ascendancy, the goal of eliminating evidence of inferiority became paramount. At the same time, however, the foundation of the United States was linked to slavery that served as reminders of its \"mongrel\" origins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana Rebekkah Paulin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816670994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816670994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013","brand":"Diana Rebekkah Paulin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46838266462463,"sku":"9780816670994","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b4fd3e8-b5b8-4784-bb4c-d9d875014b53.jpg?v=1746589303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imperfect-unions-diana-rebekkah-paulin-9780816670994","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}