I lost my identity.  I was born identifying as a middle class white Jew.  I no longer identify religiously nor do I identify as being white.  My own family is “mixed” and, as I have come to understand, race identification is only a consequence of prejudice anyway.  I am part of a human family.  So, I lost the identity I grew up with or rather, I dissociated from it.  Am I worse off?  I don’t think so.  In fact, it is quite the opposite.  I now have an identity that is truly my own rather than pushed onto me by family and society.  Having said that, I do realize others may identify me differently than I do myself and some of the things I am today are also things assigned to me. But,...