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The Truth about Jessica Alba's Race

12/6/2016

24 Comments

 
PictureJessica Alba
Tags: biology, knowledge, race/ethnicity, social construction, subtitles/CC, 00 to 05 mins
Year: 2011
Length: 3:33
Access: YouTube

Summary: In this short video from 2011, Jessica Alba appears on the talk show Lopez Tonight and endures George Lopez's comedic preamble before hearing the results of her ancestry DNA test. According to Lopez and the language used by the testing company, Alba is 87 percent European and 13 percent Native American. But to the astute observer, the show is actually claiming to reveal more than the details of Alba's genetic composition. It is also claiming to reveal information about her "true" race, and therein lies the problem.  •  As I have noted elsewhere on The Sociological Cinema, racial categories do not consistently correspond to biological observations (see here and here). To put it another way, race is not based on biology; it merely claims to be. This point often confuses people, for they reason that in some sense race must be biological. After all, skin color is largely a genetically determined characteristic, and so the thinking goes, race must be too. But while genetic instructions largely determine the amount of melanin a body produces, it is through socialization that people become predisposed to notice skin color as one of the most salient features a body can have. The thickness of one's eyebrows, the shape of their ears, or the color of their of eyes—these are also genetically determined characteristcs, but people mostly discount these features as the bearers of useful information. To socially construct race, then, is to teach people which physical characteristics are the salient markers of a racial group, and racism becomes possible once people begin assigning meanings to those salient racial markers.  •  At about the 45-second mark, Lopez explains that the DNA analysis distinguishes between four ancestral groups, and perhaps sensing that it would resonate with his audience, he incorrectly equates each ancestral group with a race. The Europeans, according to Lopez, are white, Sub-Saharan Africans are black, East Asians are Asian, and the Indigenous American group refers to Native Americans. The results confuse Alba, who racially identifies as Latina and knows her last name comes from Spain. But it is instructive to dwell a bit on the basis of her confusion, for it highlights the incompatibility between ancestral DNA and race. In the United States people with Spanish heritage tend to be racially categorized as Hispanic or Latino, which is a category believed to be distinct from white. However, DNA analyses show that the original inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula (i.e. Spain, Portugal, the small UK overseas territory of Gibraltar, and the Principality of Andorra) are a part of the same general migratory group of homo sapiens that settled the rest of Europe. As with all racial categories, contemporary distinctions between whites and Hispanics in the United States are socially created and not based on some deeper biological truth.


Submitted By: Lester Andrist

24 Comments
Emily
7/28/2017 09:41:16 am

She took a new dna test which proved her to be 22% Native American! Her father Mark Alba was 50% Native American, Her grandma was half Native and her grandpa was full native! Do your research, she even has family photos on popsugar of her mexican side! She is only 17% Spanish and she got the last name Alba from an ancestor from 200 years prior to escaping to mexico! Theres a reason why she looks navajo/mayan, Her FATHER ALONE HAD 20 NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES IN HIS DNA AND DOES NOT LOOK EUROPRAN AT ALL. Again She has even joked about her Asian looking grandparents. Because they were asian. Her mother Cathy had no french but BRITISH Ancestry and was 99.8% European! Jessica Alba looks like her Mexican Grandmother Isabel Martinez!

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Kurt
9/15/2017 12:18:48 pm

Emily, Jessica is also 1/8 Danish, her mother is 1/4 Danish, as her grandfather came directly from Denmark. The tests have no Danish category, Danish people don't test as just "Scandinavian", so some of the results are Danish even if it doesn't appear as so, most likely some of the British and the Scandinavian part.

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Robert Lynch
9/30/2020 08:08:08 am

I am a retired anthropologist who has roots in Argentina. I am distantly related.to Che Guevara Lynch. Yes Guevara was Irish on his Dad's side. Castro on the other hand had a Dad from Lancara,Spain in Galacia as in Galway Ireland. The Irish and the Basques of 1200 years ago spoke almost the same language in a trade route..

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Jroberts
11/10/2018 02:45:41 pm

Hispanic isn’t considered a race, at least according to the US Census. It’s an ethnicity (you or ancestry is from Central or South America) and is separate from race. You can be White and Hispanic.
Though I do agree that to a lay person, Hispanic is its own race.

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Chris
7/26/2019 12:34:04 pm

The YouTube link doesn't work. Looks like the video or user has been removed. I think this video is the same though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNAqwrm9hY

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lol
12/26/2019 05:28:15 pm

I did that test and being hispanic I came up with IRISH, GREEK, and BALKAN 45%!! Spanish and Portuguese 39 percent. the rest jewish, north africa and middle east with 8 percent native american.

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Wes barry
4/19/2020 10:39:18 pm

They Lopez test were nonsense. Know your roots days Larry David was 97% Jewish. That' obviously makes Lopez's claim about David being 37% native American moronic.

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4/30/2020 02:11:27 am

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9/15/2020 12:39:22 pm

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MoonCat
10/27/2020 03:39:26 pm

She was HORRIFIED and shocked that she was mostly European, i.e., white. The look on her face was hilarious! I mean, how could anybody be that stupid??? Most Hispanics seem to not know that Spain is on Europe, they are just as white as somebody from France, Germany, etc.

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