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 and model 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, Polish 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 Delightt/Delight Jones (the son of Caesar/James Jones and Susannah/Susanna Burgess). Rashida’s grandfather Quincy was born in South Carolina, to parents who were also born there. He was a semi-pro baseball player. Susannah was the daughter of West Burgess and Adele, or of Osborne Burgess and Elizabeth.
Kenya’s paternal grandmother was Sarah Frances Wells (the daughter of Love Adam Wells and Mary Bell/Belle Lanier). Sarah was born in Mississippi. Love was born in Mississippi, the son of Nelson Wells and Sarah Campbell. Mary was born in Mississippi. Her father, James Balance Lanier, 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, Belarus, and Alice from Brest/Brześć, Poland. 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 Quincy’s genetic ancestry was:
*61% 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
Brest – Brześć was for centuries a Polish city in Poland, especially around the time when Rashida’s great-grandparents were born in these lands. The only thing was that Poland at the time was under occupation by Russia, Germany, and Austria for over a century, but it was still Poland. In fact, Brest was always a Polish city, since before 1018. It was just contested later, as Poland and Kievan Rus battled over it for a long time. What’s next, Belarus NEVER existed as a country or separate nation at the time, and really never. Independent Belarus was only created after WWII, but Belarusians were always people of Ruthenian/Slavic roots, including Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian, altogether, as these lands belonged to these countries at different times. The ‘nation’ that is today called Belarusian was just local inhabitants who, for the most part, identified with Poland, since their entire territory was Poland for the longest period.
The second half of Rashida’s Eastern European great-grandparents’ roots – it’s the same thing. These roots begin in Lithuania and Latvia, not Russia. Therefore, the term ‘Russian’ or ‘Russian Empire’ is not used accurately here, as Russia simply partitioned and occupied Poland and Lithuania for a long time. Nonetheless, these nations and countries still existed; they were just under occupation. And again, Belarus didn’t exist as a strong, independent country or nation until later. So to sum up – from her mother’s side, Rashida has Polish-Jewish and Lithuanian-Jewish roots, not Russian.
Not sure why people are so shocked that she looks only white/mostly white. Her dad is a light skin black guy and her mom is white.
Yeah, but no SSA features are present in her phenotype. She just looks like a darker skinned white person.
ACtually that’s not true, but she does look overwhelmingly caucasian
Cool it with the racism lol
@l!ttletimmy
Urimnak/muricansareallmutsts is a mentally disturbed person and socially dangerous. She has previously threatened me.
to me, she looks like a latina, her skin tone is much darker than a White Mediterranean person would have
she gives me Black vibes.
@myfellowwhitepeople, I’ve lived around Hispanic people my entire life and I agree she could pass as one. She’d be atypical though.
Change Guinean to Equatorial Guinean same with her sister