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
Rashida is gorgeous. :]
And I love her name.
Her name is beautiful.I noticed that this name is more common in afram people.
It is a beautiful name for a beautiful woman.
Her mother, Peggy, is beautiful as well and so is her sister, Kidada.
Peggy Lipton is gorgeous.
This mix is incredible,Black+Jewish , she doesn’t look white, she doesn’t look black and not biracial , she’s just herself.
She is real exotic looking to me nice mixture!
I think peoples’ obsession with race and/or ethnicity is pathetic. If I’m black, so what. White, who cares… Race, throughout history, has always been used to divide and control the masses. We were all the same color at one point up until Pangea split. and only through environmental adaptation did we develop the distinctive traits we categorize today. The polished response is always “we celebrate our differences and that is why race matters.” We see how far that’s gotten us. It will soon be 2012 and we still have race riots and ethnic genocide. Obviously, this point out our differences idea is not working. My suggestion, point out our similarities as far as character traits are concerned. We should address Jared not as the black guy down the hall, but as the guy who is always willing to share the last piece of cake. Not as Sarah the white girl in accounting, but as the girl who volunteers at the soup kitchen down the hall. Furthermore, the whole thought of celebrating different origins and pasts is ridiculous to me as well. All that should matter is what you are doing with your life in the hear and now. That has nothing to do with what your great great great great grandmother did. If she was really wealthy does that mean that you have to be? If she suffered some type of persecution does that mean you were wronged via genetic legacy? Ofcourse not! People should align themselves not but the color of their skin but by the integrity of their actions. I assure you, if one places the primary focus on doing the right thing and surrounding themselves with other like-minded individuals, race will fade into the background. Most importantly, people will have to be judged for their actions as a person with the ability to know right from wrong. To hold them to any other standard (although potentially beneficial to them at the time) is an insult to that person, sending a message that they aren’t intelligent enough or maybe human enough to understand what they’re doing. Hopefully I haven’t offended anyone. Just understand all I am saying is that I want to be judged/noticed/distinguished by my actions, not by the color of my skin. When I die, I want the first thought that comes to the minds of those who knew me, “the world just lost a person of integrity.” Something I could control…
you’s right
Your comment was way too long and although it may have contained some valid points they were all overridden when you stated that all humans existed together on Pangea…. Pangea separated around 250 million years ago; humans evolved 2.5 million years ago. Does anyone else notice a slight discrepancy? So please, keep your pseudoscience to yourself, you make all people who actually research before they comment and people who might agree with you look bad.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I wasn’t referring to the Pangea during the dinosaur age. There have been many versions of Pangea and have gone by several names. Sorry if I offended you with my “pseudoscience”. So let’s get accurate! Maybe I’ll teach you something along the way. Before Pangea there were other times when supercontitnents were present. Pannotia (formed 600 million years ago), Rodinia (existing 750 million years ago), etc. Note that Pannotia and Rodinia were also called Pangea Alpha and Pangea Promotae or something along those lines. I’ll look that up and post it later. There have also been several incidents where convergent boundaries have occurred post Pangea where although they go by a different name, just like Pannotia and Rodinia, they did in fact form one solid surface connecting all the continents at once. Now here is where it differs, a few of these times, Pangea was connected by ice and thus why scientists don’t call it a supercontinent. But I say screw that noise, if it’s connected and humans could (did) cross it to get to all other continents, then it was another version of Pangea to me. I wish I knew what the documentary was called. It was on the discovery channel. It lined out how man spread from Africa initially and eventually developed distinguishing traits in order to adapt to their surroundings. Essentially they crossed over and found their way to most of the continents at the time due to convergent boundaries. And the few continents that weren’t then attached by land were attached by ice. So yeah, not Pangea, a later version of it that technically cannot be called a supercontinent because it was partially connected by ice and not land. So you are correct it was not TECHNICALLY another version of Pangea and not TECHNICALLY considered a supercontinent because it was connected through ice (that was traversed) and not land. Doesn’t change the truth of the matter asserted. That man started out the same and crossed over solid mass to spread to all the different continents we know today. So if no one takes anything else from this just know that we all came from the same place. And SMH, try to be a little less harsh with your comments. A better way to say it would have been, “Although you make some good points, you’re mistaken about your Pangea theory. Maybe you should research it more and see if you can find validity in your theory.” To me I feel like I just described a criminal to a T to the police and then later on after he’s caught, I catch flack for saying he was wearing a black hat when he was actually wearing a blue one. It’s okay though. I was technically wrong about the Pangea aspect just like I was technically wrong about the hat being black. Good thing we still caught the fictitious bad guy and my comment that was “way too long” still contained a valid premise and got the message across.
Sorry meant to add this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans#cite_note-HavilandPrins2009-0
I know it’s wiki but all the cites line up (already checked) so yeah there is my research. Sorry I made all those people who do their research before they comment “look bad”. But after looking at this, my point is proven. I especially like the part where it says “The concept was speculative until the 1980s, when it was corroborated by a study of present-day mitochondrial DNA, combined with evidence based on physical anthropology of archaic specimens.” So yeah… Checkmate.
I agree… and SMH should chill out a little and be a little kinder with your comments. The anonymity of the internet makes people awfully brave when they don’t have to worry about getting smacked in the face for something they said. And as far as Rashida, she is beautiful. You can’t say for sure, but I bet she is just as beautiful on the inside. She just seems like a really good person. :)
African American is such a dumb term! It is so broad!
I took a DNA test and I am a little more than half West African, a little more than a quarter South/Central African. And the rest is other (European, East African, North African, Asian). Technically that would make me mixed. People need to stop being so stupid. World isn’t black or white. And since according to white people all of my other is “not black” that would make me about 15% “not black”. Which is more than 1/8th. So technically I’m mixed, but the worl will never see me as such. Smh. Oh well.
Well 59% of my DNA ancestry is non-black (or non-African), with an ambiguous appearance (like Rashida) and that still doesn’t mean that many black people in the USA don’t hate me for me calling myself what I truly am….which is Mixed! With a white father and a racially mixed black Latin mother! …They will still accuse me of ‘self-hating’ and ‘running from my black side’ and/or saying that “I don’t want to be black” because of saying that I’m mixed—which is what I am! It’s like saying that you’re mixed is like cursing the black race in some way to them. It’s obvious when you look at me anyway…I can’t really lie about it! But they would prefer that I live the lie, along with them, to suit their pleasure in some way!!
…Thank goodness I wasn’t born in this country….because of that, I’m not FORCED to call myself ‘African American’….because I’m not! I’m MIXED….and I’m from Latin America, so that makes me HISPANIC…or LATIN….or a LATIN AMERICAN…. I’m sure those black folks that hate that are screaming and calling me every other hateful name right now! …Tough! ….Only in America it seems….Because my life experiences to date never had me go through such aggravation with white people….it’s always been with blacks and me feeling like I have to prove something to them or to try to win their approval in some way…. I can relate to what Rashida went through with the black girls that gave her grief in college and probably in life, in general. People like to think that it is just white America that is racist….think again.
It doesn’t really matter, I usually hang out with my family and people from my country…that’s where I feel comfortable and where I can be myself at the end of the day, because I am accepted for me and not what I have to be to fit in.