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Birth Name:
Rashida Leah Jones
Birth Place:
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Ethnicity:
African American, Jewish-Russian, Jewish-Irish, Welsh
The daughter of the music producer Quincy Jones is a model and actress. Her father is mainly of West African/Central African ancestry with some Welsh heritage, and her mother is Jewish with Irish and Russian roots.
She was once studying Hinduism but now she is practicing Judaism. She is famous for her role on The Office as Karen Filipelli and Louisa Fenn on Boston Public.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Jones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lipton
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If you people only knew. I have a friend who is Mexican and Black (both are brown races) and she is as fair skinned as the fairest white person. She is lighter than Rashida Jones. No, neither of her parents is mixed or look the part. I also have “mixed looking” friends (as u call them). they are light skinned but come from dark skinned black ppl. Black people are more diverse than white ppl choose to believe. If we come in lighter shades, we are mixed lmao. my father is light skinned with nearly straight hair and is “mixed looking” (smh) but both of his parents are black and so are his grandparents. So Quincy Jones could easily be black even though he is “mixed looking” and it even states up there that he is mostly west african with SOME welsh heritage.
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who the fak cares!? Shes hot a great actress, shes not white and shes not black.And you know wat else is weird , CHICO
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Wow I just saw her in a movie and I didn’t even know she was black until they rolled the credits and I realized it was quincy Jones’ daughter. I thought she was hispanic. That’s crazy. I think the fact that she looks predominently white could be because of whatever mixed heritage quincy has. Usually half black half white comes out looking more black or looking like more of an even mixture. Rashida looks like someone who has one white parent and one biracial parent, like someone who is only a quarter black.Then again this predominance of white traits could definately happen if one parent is only of african descent (black).
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To sonia. Most africans are mixed? Get real. And why do africans call each other black? Why call each other by a color? At least get it right. Brown, dark brown,caramel, choose one. Unless you guys cover yourselves with tar get it straight.
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oh, and sonia you make a lot of sense. i bet his original birth certificate says negro on it as mine does. i know times have changed, but when did people get a chance to pick a race from a list. i think that i’m behind the times for sure.
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people these days always trying to include something. if your black just say it. did tiger woods start that or was it someone else, but whom ever started it, i wish that they hadn’t. i wish all of these people would have been born in the south before 1950′s; they would know then.
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sonia, you obviously have no idea what mixed is. it is not just half and half. Quincy Jones is very mixed looking. You have to take in more than just skin color. Apparently you didn’t look at bone structure in the face, hair texture and yes, the caramel skin color helps you know that he is mixed. I don’t know if you are mixed, but people who are have the right to claim/accept whatever they want to of their race(s). Being mixed is both or all of your immediate races, at least going back to great grandparents.
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Who cares lol?:)She’s hilarious on Parks and Recreation!
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Her dad is as “mixed” as most black people in the US. Quincy Jones is only listed as “mixed” because Rashida looks “white” (like Micheal Jackson’s kids), and so people apparently have to come up with some way to try to explain away her whiteness. Quincy Jones is black. Mixed is half one race and half another, more or less. He is not half white. Just accept it, people. Half black people can look white.
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Her dad is mixed. Black but mixed. I think his grandma is white.
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