There are landmark learning moments as the mainstream approaches. As a book, Branches is revolutionary in its form. So it's cheaper in the long run. The process also enables her company to take a risk on a title that could be overlooked by big publishing houses, Booth says, noting Branches as a prime example. Davis agrees that Branches would have been passed over by the big houses.
White supremacy depends on the premise that black people have terrible lives.
At Colgate I experienced a great sense of spiritual isolation. My roommate was always wondering if his mother loved him. My upbringing had been so rooted in folk culture that that thought never crossed by mind. In Arnold Sio's course I read Native Son and Black Boy and wondered who those people were. Davis never visited his publisher's office, never took a lunch with his editor to discuss prospects for his book, never worked late into the night poring over page proofs and arguing to retain deleted phrases or points of view.