Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE Race, Immigration, and Rights -- 1 Asian Americans -- I -- II -- 2 Individual Right and Collective Interests -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 3 Securing Rights by Action, Securing Rights by Default -- 4 From Civil Rights to Civic Death -- FLASHBACK TO 1924 -- THE NAZIS ASSUME POWER -- 5 The Rights of Aliens in Germany and the United States -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF IMMIGRATION LAW IN THE UNITED STATES -- BASIC LAW TO THE RESCUE: ALIEN RIGHTS IN GERMANY -- CONCLUSION -- PART TWO Civil and Social Rights -- 6 "The Right to Work Is the Right to Live!" -- THE RIGHT TO WORK -- WORKING-CLASS VOICES -- CONCLUSION -- 7 Social Rights and Citizenship During World War II -- A "NEW ECONOMIC ORDER" IN EUROPE: THE GERMAN PROPAGANDA OFFENSIVE -- A NEW BILL OF RIGHTS FOR THE UNITED STATES? -- RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP, AND SOCIAL SECURITY -- THE IMPACT OF THE BEVERIDGE REPORT -- MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Just Desserts -- 9 The Political Culture of Rights -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 10 The Emerging Right to Information -- THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF A RIGHT TO INFORMATION -- EXPERIENCE WITH GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED INFORMATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- EARLY INFORMATION POLICY INITIATIVES -- THE INFORMATION SOCIETY OF THE 1990S -- INFORMATION EQUITY -- TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMICS ISSUES IN INFORMATION EQUITY -- UNIVERSAL SERVICE -- ADDITIONAL EQUITY CONSIDERATIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART THREE Gender, Sex, and Rights -- 11 Feminist Movements in the United States and Germany -- 12 Minorities, Civil Rights, and Political Culture -- TOOLS FOR ANALYSIS -- FROM PERSECUTION TO PROMINENCE, 1897-1997 -- Germany: The Infamous Paragraph 175 -- The United States - Federalism at Work.

THE PENAL CODE AND SOCIETY AT LARGE -- STRATEGIES AND TACTICS: PETITIONS, PROPAGANDA, PROTESTS, AND PARADES -- The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee -- From Mattachine to Stonewall -- STONEWALL AND BEYOND -- Index.