Rashida Jones
Jones in 2011, kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Rashida Leah Jones
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: February 25, 1976
Ethnicity:
*father – African-American, with some English, Scottish, and Welsh
*mother – Ashkenazi Jewish
Rashida Jones is an American actress, writer, and producer. Her roles include I Love You, Man, Our Idiot Brother, Boston Public, The Office, and On the Rocks.
She is the daughter of music producer Quincy Jones and actress and model Peggy Lipton. She is a sister of actress Kidada Jones and a half-sister of model Kenya Kinski-Jones. She has a son with her partner, musician Ezra Koenig.
Rashida’s father is mainly of African-American [West African/Central African] ancestry, with some English, Scottish, and Welsh, heritage.
Rashida’s mother was Jewish, of Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish, and Latvian Jewish descent. Rashida was raised Jewish, studied Hinduism, and is now a practicing Jew.
Rashida’s paternal grandfather was Quincy Delight/Delightt Jones (the son of Caesar Jones and Susannah/Susanna Burgess). Rashida’s grandfather Quincy was born in South Carolina, and was a semi-pro baseball player. Caesar and Susannah were both black. Susannah was the daughter of West Burgess and Adele, or of Osborne Burgess and Elizabeth.
Rashida’s paternal grandmother was Sarah Frances Wells (the daughter of Love Adam Wells and Mary Belle Lanier). Sarah was born in Mississippi. Love, who was black, was the son of Nelson Wells and Sarah Campbell. Mary’s father, James Balance Lanier, was white, and had mostly English, as well as Scottish and Welsh, ancestry. Mary’s mother, Cordelia Dickson, was black.
Rashida’s maternal grandfather was Harold Arlen Lipton (the son of Max Lipschitz/Lipton and Alice Goldfarb). Harold was born in The Bronx, New York City. Max and Alice were Jewish emigrants, Max from Slutsk and Alice from Brest, both in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire. Max was the son of Harris/Harold Lipschitz and Rebecca Leah Pitovsky/Witkowsky. Alice was the daughter of Aaron Goldfarb and Frieda/Freude Bass/Bab.
Rashida’s maternal grandmother was Rita Hetty Benson/Rosenberg (the daughter of Hyman Rosenberg and Jeanie “Jane” Benson). Rita was born in Dublin, Ireland. Hyman was a Russian Jewish emigrant, who was born in Saga, Province of Kemerovo, the son of Marko Benjamin Rosenberg and Sarah Hahn. Jeanie was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, to Jewish parents from Latvia and/or Kaunas, Lithuania, Benjamin Joseph Bensohn/Benson, from Kovno, and Sophia Winestein/Weinstein.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show African American Lives (2006) stated that Rashida’s father’s, Quincy Jones’s, genetic ancestry is:
*66% Sub-Saharan African
*34% European
In his 2009 book about the show, In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wrote that Quincy’s African DNA matches the Tikar people of Cameroon, the Sukuma people of Tanzania, the Tonga people of Mozambique, and the Fang people of Equatorial Guinea.
Sources: Genealogy of Rashida Jones – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Rashida Jones (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.wikitree.com
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.
You’re an idiot. People include other races because they’re actually mixed with them. Just because someone is mixed and they look more black doesn’t mean they shouldn’t state their other race(s) that they’re mixed with. That’s stupid as hell. People should embrace their heritage, not be ashamed and just claim one race to make people feel better.
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.
I dont think Quincy Jones is mixed looking at all. He can be 100% black African. And 100% black Africans can have caramel skin. Black Africans range in skin tone from black licorice to cafe au lait very light
Who cares lol?:)She’s hilarious on Parks and Recreation!
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.
Her dad is mixed. Black but mixed. I think his grandma is white.