En fait il s´agit de noirs américains qui vivent dans un quartier séparé des autres, autrement dit, contexte de ségrégation raciale...
La phrase est la suivante:
The black people would have disagreed, but they had no time to think about... And each other, wondering even as earthly things - and each other, wondering even as early as 1920 what shadrack was all about... what that little girl Sula who grew into a woman in their town, was all about, and what they themselves were all about, tucked up there in the bottom
Merci ;)