Dr. Mike Mena

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Race & identityLanguage & linguisticsTeaching & educatorslanguageracelinguisticseducationsocial-justice
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Audience and activity

Subscribers11.0K
Views per video1.9Kmedian of the last 30
Views per subscriber0.17how many actually watch
Comments per video10median
Uploads per month0.4
Last upload17d ago2026-09-21
Total views526K
Total videos89
Long-form / Shorts100% / 0%

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What Dr. Mike Mena makes

Topics language, race, linguistics, education, social-justice

SLL MISSION STATEMENT: 'The Social Life of Language' is an open-access educational YouTube channel designed to bring complex theoretical academic work on language and race into the realm of public discourse in a way that is simple, but never simplified. GOALS AND ETHICAL COMMITMENTS: 1) Create fast-paced, entertaining educational content by “rewording” and "transposing" complex theoretical work on race and language into everyday talk. 2) Establish relevance and timeliness of language scholarship by connecting material to contemporary political economic events. 3) Create an innovative, conversational pedagogical resource for students and professors across various language and race centered sub-disciplines. 4) Increase the visibility of Scholars of Color in Language Studies (SCiLS) by dedicating at least half of created content to Scholars of Color.

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Recent videos

TitlePublishedViewsLength
Transforming the 'split bilingual subject': A translanguaging love story (Mena 2026)2026-09-2195527 min
A Raciolinguistic Perspective: On the "white listening subject" (Flores and Rosa 2015)2026-07-201.3K34 min
Article Read-Aloud: "The LANGUAGING REPRESENTATIONS CHART" (Mena 2025)2026-05-3127042 min
ANNOYING SUPERHEROES: On "double-consciousness" theory (Du Bois 1903)2025-06-0460827 min
Teaching & Learning Translanguaging Theory: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet (Mena, 2025)2025-01-232.1K37 min
HOW TO "BECOME WHITE": A Dummies' Guide (Mena, 2024)2024-08-188.8K38 min
READ-ALOUD: "Semiotic whitening: Whiteness without white people" (2024) By: Mike Mena2024-04-131.2K81 min
THE DEFICIENCY PERSPECTIVE: A Biography of a (Racist) Worldview2024-02-051.7K38 min
"Soft" Linguistic Terrorism: A Theory (Mena, 2023)2024-01-013.1K23 min
THE LANGUAGE GAP: A Biography of a (evil?) Concept2023-09-065.7K33 min

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