Might also be a white character's Token Black Friend, often in female-led shows. It's also rather common for the positive variant to be the Only Sane Woman of a group, in which case her 'sass' will be more like ' exasperated sarcasm'. The positive version is now portrayed a lot more than the negative version, mainly because of the Unfortunate Implications that portraying Black women in only this way had. Also like the Spicy Latina, the character will usually be sexually liberated and have no qualms acting in a sexual manner, though usually in a less pronounced manner. These characters usually make good leaders, because though generally fun, insightful, they are still firm in decisions, trustworthy, and speak their minds. In complete contrast to her other variation, is not only a pleasure to be around, but is also so the go to girl for advice and help. She's defined by her vivaciousness, humor and joie de vivre, and can make a good counterpoint to the more grim or snarky members of the cast. It started with the heroines of blaxploitation movies, like Coffy and Foxy Brown (both played by Pam Grier), and continued into the 1980s.

Combine these, and you get the sassy Black woman. And because of the feminism movement, this was especially the case for Black women. To illustrate this, sassy ' Mammy' figures could scold the family they worked for and playfully berate their employers (so the authors could show that Blacks were not being oppressed). Since the era of Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement, Black people were more visible and could be more outspoken - to a point, particularly if they were female.

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