The cast of Undocumented/Unafraid, 2015.
Undocumented/Unafraid is a play written by the authors of Decolonizing Ethnography.
Lucy, Mirian, Carolina and Daniel met for two years (2013-2015), sometimes just the four of them, sometimes with other members of Casa Hometown, and wrote a one act play in eight scenes inspired by the true story of the work accident that Mirian suffered in a horse farm in New Jersey and her legal battle against her employer while being away from her children, who were in Guatemala. Each scene ends with a short caption about workers’ rights in the United States and reminds undocumented people that these rights apply to everyone, regardless of their immigration status.
Lucy, Mirian, Carolina and Daniel performed the play in Casa Hometown in August 2015 along with other members of the organization (portrayed in the image) in celebration of the completion of their four-year ethnographic study in Hometown and included it in Spanish [PDF] and English [PDF] in the final chapter of the book. The play is an accessible way to disseminate the findings of the research and the creators encourage folks to produce and perform it as a pedagogical tool for spectators and actors alike.