Queer of color critique, historical materialism, and canonical sociology -- The knee-pants of servility : American modernity, the Chicago school, and native son -- The specter of Woodridge : canonical formations and the anticanonical in Invisible man -- Nightmares of the heteronormative : Go tell it on the mountain versus an American dilemma -- Something else to be : Sula, the Moynihan report, and the negations of Black lesbian feminism -- Toward the end of normativity.