If Beale Street Could Talk Lesson Plan

What are Sharon's thoughts on white institutions and white America? What do her comments make clear about living as a Black person in the States? Which other characters seem to share Sharon's views?

When Tish and Sharon first talk about her pregnancy, Sharon assures her daughter she doesn't think she is a "bad girl." She goes on to say that when African people were stolen and dragged to America, white preachers never said any words over couples to marry them before they had babies. Marriage as an institution was denied to them and they certainly don't need it now to feel honorable. She says that Tish and Fonny would be together right now if it wasn't "for that same...