I wouldn't want a really Jewish person (which is not me) to give up their Jewish identity, but the scope and content of Jewishness (or perhaps Ashenazi-ness, which is typically what we think of in the U.S.) strikes me as more analogous to, say, Gullah/Geechee, or Creole, as opposed to "Black" writ large. There are a lot of black identities in this country, as there are a lot of white ones, and the more granular culturally distinct identities seem healthier and more useful to me than the overriding racial categories.
I wouldn't want a really Jewish person (which is not me) to give up their Jewish identity, but the scope and content of Jewishness (or perhaps Ashenazi-ness, which is typically what we think of in the U.S.) strikes me as more analogous to, say, Gullah/Geechee, or Creole, as opposed to "Black" writ large. There are a lot of black identities in this country, as there are a lot of white ones, and the more granular culturally distinct identities seem healthier and more useful to me than the overriding racial categories.