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 was 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 was:
*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 matched 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
and cajuns. However there were Creoles in Cuba and in Haiti and Puerto Rico and other places. Where did your creoles come from because I would bet that if they are Americans they are from Louisiana. Look up the word creole and find out what it really means. Creoles were a way for those of mixed heritage to identify themselves as saying they were mixed or born of the this soil but had a European parent. There were Italian Creoles, German Creoles, and etc. But Creole is not a race let us not forget that fact. It is more of a pedigree just like the census said for latinos this year… (ex. Hispanic origins such as Mexican, Mexican Amer., or Chicano,Puerto Rican or Cuban or any of the other origins are not races) Instead they must say yes we are of Hispanic/Latino origin but then choose a race that most identifies who they are. So if they were darker they were black, or if they were whiter they were white. This world is so much more than black and white and until we figure that out we must learn to embrace our mixtures or our one cultures and be happy with who we are and that’s that. Also, we must learn of the other several and various cultures of the world that we live in. The only way for a white person to know what it feels like to be black in this world is to be black….false. Learn the cultures within the black, african american, and african communities then you will at least be more sensitive when you see a black person walking down the street. Just because a person has a lighter skinned family member does not always mean that person must have white people in their family. My brother and I are both lighter skinned but it hurts when we tell people we have a sister and we show her to them and they say she can’t be your sister she is too black! How dare you treat my sister any differently from us! She is of the same blood and the same parents as we are. I have seen that so much especially living here in MS. Some people can be so ignorant to color. I once saw a little red headed baby (biracial) walking around with her mother who was white. I thought she was so pretty and made a comment about her red hair being so pretty and her mother said oh yeah girl(as if she was black) people always want to know how she got red hair being half black. I thought that was the most dumbest thing I had ever heard in my life. Why? As if Black people can not have red hair or blue eyes. Besides I would not even know she was half black if her mother wouldn’t have told me. I guess she assumes I was half black and decided to make that ignorant A** comment. I told her that people are ignorant because where I am from you see that all the time. She asked me where I was from and I told her Louisiana. (shocked) I also have a friend who is from Africa (ethiopian) and she is not the stereotyped Ethiopians you would see on television. She is fair skinned, beautiful hair hair and her entire family looks like that. There are some darker skinned ones but all the same. My other Friend is Puerto Rican but I guess she looks more afro- amer because she is always being called black. She knows she is african descent but she is proud to be from PR. All I am saying is getting to know the person before you judge their race. If you are mixed embrace and be proud of all your mixtures and if someone is not mixed like you (half/half mix) that does not make them any less mixed than you are. Don’t get upset because those around you choose to say they are mixed because their great great grandparent was white or black or whatever. That is not for you to tell them what they are or who they are. Find yourself and love yourself. Learn of the differences in the world around you and live with those who are not like you and that’s when you will truly learn what you need to know about this person or that culture of people. That’s all I am saying…
Thanks for the insight Miranda.
All the stereotypes placed on us. I am not your typical tv amer. indian u would see on westerns… I look more latino or half white half black ( I get that a lot) but does that make me any less of being native? We should accept everyone’s differences for what they r and what they tell u! We shouldn’t questions when people say they r who or what they r. As for creoles, they were of mixed heritages so for Sonia before u say creole do your research on it because I am also from Louisiana the home of creoles and
Hi everyone. I see all u guys points but as it was stated how can one be offended by their own people? I happened to see Rashida Jones on television and noticed she had to be biracial. I am biracial or “mixed” with afro-latino,choctaw indian and white. I being raised my parents who r both predominately native indian, raised my siblings and me to be mostly indian. I get a little sad when I tell people i am amer. indian and they ask what else am I mixed with? This society is so messed up with race because of
Here Are Her Paternal Grandparents
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Quincy%20Jones.html
nice work Total23!
dame you guys be writing an essay!!!!!!!!!!! lol
To italysdivine101
Yeah we get carried away sometimes