Jonathan van Harmelen

Jonathan van Harmelen is a historian of Japanese Americans. He received his PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2024. He is the co-author, with Greg Robinson, of The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History.

Fred Korematsu in 1983.

One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever

Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision are still with us today.

Dec 18, 2024 / Jonathan van Harmelen

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