Contents

List of Contributors page ix

Introduction Manfred Berg and Martin H. Geyer 1

part one

race, immigration, and rights

1 Asian Americans: Rights Denied and Attained

Roger Daniels 19

2 Individual Right and Collective Interests: The NAACP and

the American Voting Rights Discourse

Manfred Berg 33

3 Securing Rights by Action, Securing Rights by Default:

American Jews in Historical Perspective

Hasia R.

4 From Civil Rights to Civic Death: Dismantling Rights in

Nazi Germany

Karl A. Schleunes 77

5 The Rights of Aliens in Germany and the United States

Christian Joppke 95

part two

civil and social rights

6 “The Right to Work Is the Right to Live!” Fair Employment

and the Quest for Social Citizenship

Eileen Boris 121

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7 Social Rights and Citizenship During World War II

Martin H. Geyer 143

8 Just Desserts: Virtue, Agency, and Property in Mid-TwentiethВ­Century Germany

Michael L. Hughes 167

9 The Political Culture of Rights: Postwar Germany and the United States in Comparative Perspective

Hugh Davis Graham 189

10 The Emerging Right to Information

Margaret S. Dalton 205

part three

gender, sex, and rights

11 Feminist Movements in the United States and Germany:

A Comparative Perspective, 1848-1933 Ann Taylor Allen 231

12 Minorities, Civil Rights, and Political Culture: Gay and Lesbian Rights in Germany and the United States

Michael Dreyer 249

Index 273