The Multiracial Activist

The Multiracial Activist was established in April 1997 by James A. Landrith, Jr. as a journal addressing the political, social, and civil-liberties concerns of people who understand themselves as biracial or multiracial. Its audience also includes interracial couples and families and people involved in transracial adoption. The publication is based in Alexandria, Virginia, and is registered with the Library of Congress under ISSN 1552-3446. The journal's early work developed alongside debates over how the United States government represented race in official statistics. During the late 1990s, TMA supported efforts to let respondents to the Census and other government forms select more than one racial category. This advocacy challenged single-category approaches to racial classification and argued that public data should reflect the lived identities of people with more than one racial heritage. From 1998 onward, TMA published a letter from Bob Jones University. The correspondence became associated with renewed attention to the university's policy prohibiting interracial relationships among its students. The policy was later repealed. The source material describes the publication as part of the sequence that brought the issue to public attention, without attributing the repeal exclusively to TMA. TMA's remit broadened into a larger civil-liberties program. Alongside its work on multiracial identity and interracial marriage, it addressed racial profiling, domestic surveillance, financial privacy, national identification cards, immigration reform, and related questions concerning government power and individual rights. The publication and its founder participated in several coalitions, including the Coalition for Patient Privacy, the Asylum Working Group sponsored by Human Rights First, the Liberty Coalition, and In Defense of Freedom. In December 2001, TMA joined as a plaintiff in litigation brought by the Center for National Security Studies against the Department of Justice. The lawsuit represented the publication's involvement in post-September 11-era debates about national security, access to government information, and civil liberties. The Multiracial Activist has subsequently been discussed in books dealing with extremism, social identity, multiracialism, and comparative race relations. The cited works include a 2003 book on extremism, a 2004 multidisciplinary treatment of social identities, a 2004 edited volume on the politics of multiracialism, and a 2006 comparative study of race and multiraciality in Brazil and the United States. Publicly available reference material does not establish the journal's current publication schedule, organizational ownership, staff, or active status.

• 2006

  Referenced in comparative race scholarship

  [1]The Multiracial Activisten.wikipedia.org

  The publication is cited in a comparative study of race and multiraciality in Brazil and the United States.

• 2004

  Included in scholarship on identity and multiracialism

  [1]The Multiracial Activisten.wikipedia.org

  TMA is referenced in works addressing social identities and the politics of multiracialism.

• 2003

  Profiled in a book on extremism

  [1]The Multiracial Activisten.wikipedia.org

  The publication is discussed in The Fundamentals of Extremism.

• 2001

  Joins Department of Justice lawsuit

  [1]The Multiracial Activisten.wikipedia.org

  In December, TMA participates as a plaintiff in litigation initiated by the Center for National Security Studies against the Department of Justice.

• 1998

  Coverage of Bob Jones University correspondence begins

  [1]The Multiracial Activisten.wikipedia.org

  TMA begins publishing a letter from Bob Jones University, contributing to public attention around the institution's ban on interracial relationships.

• 1997

  The publication is founded

  [1]The Multiracial Activisten.wikipedia.org

  James A. Landrith, Jr. establishes The Multiracial Activist in April as a journal focused on multiracial identity and related civil-liberties issues.

A niche American advocacy publication combining multiracial-identity journalism with left-libertarian civil-liberties activism.

• Political and social-issues publication · 1997

  The Multiracial Activist journal

  The core publication covers multiracial identity, interracial relationships and families, transracial adoption, racial classification, and civil-liberties questions. Its editorial scope also includes racial profiling, surveillance, privacy, immigration, and national identification policies.

• 1998Bob Jones University interracial-relationship policy advocacy

  United States

  The publication began running correspondence from Bob Jones University during the controversy over the university's prohibition on interracial relationships among students.

  Outcome. The university eventually repealed the ban; the source does not attribute the repeal solely to TMA.

  Source
• Multiple-race classification advocacy

  United States

  TMA participated in late-1990s efforts to allow respondents to select more than one racial classification on the Census and other government forms.

  Outcome. The available source confirms TMA's participation but does not specify a single organizational outcome attributable to the publication.

  Source
• Coalition-based civil-liberties advocacy

  United States

  TMA and its founder participated in coalitions dealing with patient privacy, asylum policy, freedom, surveillance, and related civil-liberties issues.

  Source

1. 1The Multiracial Activisten.wikipedia.org
2. 2The Multiracial Activist official websitemultiracial.com