This course will offer a linguistic anthropological approach to understanding ideologies and practices of language, identity, nation, and state in francophone Canada, and more broadly in francophone North America, with attention to imperialism, colonialism, modernity and globalization. It will cover the period from French colonization (New France) to the present, covering language ideological debates and discursive struggles for power, as well as the boundaries, erasures, and exclusions they produce. There will be opportunities for empirical investigation, whether historical or contemporary.