The more complicated answer to this is that pop culture has created and nurtured reductive archetypes for nonwhite characters, who continue to be few and far between. Black women and women of color have not been allowed to embody characters with a full range of emotion and instead have been fitted into convenient character archetypes fueled by racist stereotypes. Black female anger became the Angry Black Woman. Asian women became Dragon Ladies. And Latina women became the Spicy Latina.
