Is Jessica Alba White or Hispanic?

Question

NNDB lists Jessica Alba as White,

Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

But she looks Hispanic to me

Answer 1

Yeah, and "Alba" is a Hispanic last name. Her father is Mexican-American. Check wikipedia.

Answer 2

Is Jessica Alba Hispanic

Answer 3

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RE:

Is Jessica Alba White or Hispanic?

NNDB lists Jessica Alba as White,



Gender: Female

Religion: Roman Catholic

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Actor



But she looks Hispanic to me

Answer 4

Well I'm mixed (my mother's a white European woman and my father is African-American) and many people call me black and mistake me for being African-American which I CAN'T STAND. Maybe the reason why Hollywood claims Jessica as a white woman is because she is half white and she is a Hollywood actor (high social class). She may look full Hispanic to you but to me, I think she looks both ways. She is rich and she is not your average Mexican woman, she also doesn't want to be considered Hispanic just as I hate to be considered black.

Answer 5

Shes hispanic. but she doesn't like to be reffered as such. Thats why Perez Hilton calls her Jessica "don't call me latina" Alba.

Answer 6

i've been surfing the internet more than 3 hours today searching for answer to the same question, yet I haven't found any interesting discussion like this. It's pretty worth enough for me.

Answer 7

She's of Hispanic descent, but it's pretty diluted. She chooses to identify herself as a white woman.



But uh... who cares? She's pretty.



Brandon

Answer 8

Alba was born in Pomona, California, the daughter of Catherine (née Jensen), who is Danish American on her father's side and French American on her mother's side, and Mark Alba, who is Mexican American (though both of his parents were born in California). don't pigeon hole someone so quickly. Give it a thousand years and we'll all be kinda latte coloured due to the races mixing so much! yay!

Answer 9

she has french in her for sure, but shes not like full on hispanic...kinda a mix of somethings



ok i looked it up andddd...... it says



Alba was born in Pomona, California to Mark Alba who is of Mexican-American descent and Cathy Jensen of Danish, French-Canadian, English and Italian descent.



tada! there ya go!

Answer 10

She is probably both.



During the 1970s, the United States Government defined the term "Hispanic" to identify Latin American individuals, and their descendants, living in the U.S., regardless of race.



The ethnic label Hispanic was the result of efforts by a New Mexican U.S. Senator, Joseph Montoya, who wanted a label that could be used to quantify the Spanish-speaking population for the US Census. The label Hispanic was chosen in part because in New Mexico, people of Spanish descent such as Montoya referred to themselves as hispanos which was anglicized as "Hispanic".



The U.S. Office of Management and Budget currently defines "Hispanic or Latino" as "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race".

Answer 11

Turns out she is over %80 European making her whiter than most.

Answer 12

die young and save yourself is right. she says that her, her parents, and her grandparents have been in california their whole lives or something like that so she doesn't identify herself as a latina

Answer 13

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Answer 14

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she looks way better than the average white woman.. So, now whites want to name her white...

Answer 15

Her dad is hispanic... but her mom is white (blond hair, blue eyed), so you can consider her as mixed

Answer 16

Shes mixed with mexican

Answer 17

hispanic and mexican are not races.

Answer 18

she's both

but she's doesn't like the fact that's she is half mexican

Answer 19

I thought she was mix asian/hispanic?



btw hispanic is white, being hispanic is an ethnicity like being german or slavic or persian. still all white

Answer 20

she's human.

Answer 21

The question should be..is she good Catholic?

Answer 22

i'm pretty sure she's white