Angelina Jolie is currently on the big screen playing the part of Marianne Pearl, “a French-born, brown-skinned, kinky-curly-haired woman of Afro-Cuban and Dutch heritage. Ponder the societal implications of Jolie sporting a spray tan and a corkscrew wig. Discuss: Is this the latest entry in the American canon of blackface –21st-century style? Or does Jolie’s color-bending turn as the wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl herald a sea change in our racial consciousness?”