Workshops with Mr. Z
Posted Mar 13 2006
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Daniel D. Zarazua
Hip-Hop and Social Justice Education
Profile
Utilizing his combined experiences as an educator, DJ, and writer, Daniel D. Zarazua has developed a series of interactive, multi-media workshops to inform and facilitate dialogue regarding hip hop as a tool for education and social justice.
Workshop Topics
Other topics can be presented upon request
- History of Hip Hop
- An overview of hip hop's development, the social context that has shaped it, and ways that hip hop is used as a tool for social justice.
- Asian Americans in Hip Hop
- A look at the role, identity, and influence of Asians and Asian Americans in hip hop
- Hip Hop in the Classroom
- Techniques and lesson plans for high school educators
- Hip Hop as a Terrorist Threat
- An examination of how hip hop has been portrayed as a source of terrorism
Background and Experience
As an educator, Daniel has worked with a wide-range of populations including college students and adolescents diagnosed as emotionally disturbed. He has taught at the University of Michigan, San Diego State University, with Stanford University's Upward Bound program, and at high schools in California and Illinois. He has also worked with community mural projects in Detroit and wrote the proposal for the first space named to honor an Asian American at the University of Michigan. He earned a dual Bachelor's Degree in U.S. History and American Culture and a Master's Degree in Secondary Education from the University of Michigan.
Daniel's DJ and music experience includes events throughout North America and abroad, including Belfast, Sydney, Taipei, San Francisco, and Paris and he's worked with the likes of The Last Poets, Eminem, Speech of Arrested Development, and Afro-Cuban legend Lazaro Galarraga. In 1999 he was nominated "Best Hip Hop DJ" in the Detroit Music Awards.
His writings have appeared in various publications, including URB, Blaze, Mi Gente, and Sydney's Cyclic Defrost magazine. His story on Asian-Americans in hip hop was voted "Story of the Year" by Detroit Metro Times readers in 1998.
Past Clients and Events include:
- Brigham Young University
- City of Detroit Youth Department
- Common Space, St. Louis
- Midwest Asian American Student Union
- National Conference on Race and Ethnicity
- Open Society Institute, New York
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
For more information:
www.domingoyu.com
info@domingoyu.com
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