Imperfect UnionsImperfect Unions 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 blackwhite binary that informed them in a wide variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War Iby Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dixon, J.