Two cultures of rights : the quest for inclusion and participation in modern America and Germany / edited by Manfred Berg, Martin H. Geyer.

Papers of a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 1997 and sponsored by the German Historical Institute.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Asian Americans: rights denied and attained / Roger Daniels -- Individual right and collective interests: the NAACP and the American voting rights discourse / Manfred Berg -- Securing rights by action, securing rights by default: American Jews in historical perspective / Hasia R. Diner -- From civil rights to civic death: dismantling rights in Nazi Germany / Karl A. Schleunes -- The rights of aliens in Germany and the United States / Christian Joppke -- right to work is the right to live!" Fair employment and the quest for social citizenship / Eileen Boris -- Social rights and citizenship during World War II / Martin H. Geyer -- Just desserts: virtue, agency, and property in mid-twentieth-century Germany / Michael L. Hughes -- The political culture of rights: postwar Germany and the United States in comparative perspective / Hugh Davis Graham -- The emerging right to information / Margaret S. Dalton -- Feminist movements in the United States and Germany: a comparative perspective, 1848-1933 / Ann Taylor Allen -- Minorities, civil rights, and political culture: gay and lesbian rights in Germany and the United States / Michael Dreyer.

This collection addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights and social rights in the United States and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Using a cross-national comparative approach, this book presents national case studies that explore the similarities and differences of conceptualizing rights on both sides of the Atlantic. This book analyses the struggle for these rights by individuals and groups and how this struggle became an essential feature not only in political discourse but also in social and political practice and culture in both Germany and the United States. More specifically, the book examines the different ways rights have been denied due to race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Considerable attention is given to the impact of Nazism and the struggle for social rights during and after World War II.

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