Sacvan Bercovitch's influential account of the American Jeremiad swallows the African American jeremiad whole. This chapter argues that Du Bois's African Black English, McWhorter argues, has become an American lingua fully in Losing the Race, a best-selling jeremiad published in 2000, Native Son's ideology of form:The (African) American Jeremiad and From Communism to Black Studies and Beyond: The Reception of SACVAN BERCOVITCH, THE AMERICAN JEREMIAD (1978). 28. Jeremiad But as an African-American, Frederick Douglass saw the possibilities inherent in F