The Multiracial Activist (TMA) is a left-libertarian activist journal covering social and civil liberties issues of interest to individuals who perceive themselves to be biracial or multiracial. In addition, interracial couples and families and transracial adoptees are also constituencies covered. The magazine is based in Alexandria, Virginia.
History Founded in April 1997 by James A. Landrith, Jr., The Multiracial Activist is registered with the Library of Congress in Washington, DC under .
In addition to covering news on its core constituencies, The Multiracial Activist is involved in various civil liberties coalitions. Coalition topics include racial classifications, domestic surveillance, racial profiling, financial privacy,Weyrich, Paul, Document: Letter from FCF to Sec. Evans Re Financial Privacy, May 15, 2001 national identification cards, immigration reform,Human Rights First and general civil liberties issues.Vibe The Multiracial Activist participated as a plaintiff in a controversialFreedom of Information Act lawsuit lawsuit initiated by the Center for National Security Studies against the Department of Justice in December 2001.
Advocacy The Multiracial Activist participated in the efforts in the late 1990s to allow respondents to the U.S. Census and other government forms that collect racial classification data to check more than one racial classification box.Multiracial Beginning in 1998, The Multiracial Activist published a letter from Bob Jones University,Multiracial which eventually led to the repeal of their long-standing ban on interracial relationships among their student population.New Boston Books
In addition to working on racial classification issues, multiracial identity and interracial marriage, The Multiracial Activist and its founder currently serve on a diverse variety of civil liberties coalitions.Multiracial Most notable are the Coalition for Patient Privacy,Patient Privacy Rights Asylum Working Group (sponsored by Human Rights First), Liberty Coalition and In Defense of Freedom.In Defense of Freedom
Books The Multiracial Activist has been profiled in numerous books. Most notable are: 2003 The Fundamentals of Extremism,Microsoft Word – The Fundamentals Text.doc 2004 Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches by Gary Taylor and Spencer Steve, 2004 The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking edited by Heather M. Dalmage, and 2006 Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? by G. Reginald Daniel.
See also Multiracial Race of the Future
References
External links Official Site