Humanities Truck Community Archive

Faculty Fellow Ludy Grandas worked with Trabajadores Unidos de Washington, DC (TUWDC) to document "hard to count populations" (by the Census Bureau) specifically, day laborer and Afro-Latino immigrant lives. One component of this project, "Jornaleros: Manos Invisibles / Day Laborers: Invisible Hands," is a group exhibition of ten day laborers who photographed their own everyday lives as jornaleros using their cell phone cameras. Through their eyes, the day laborers’ goal was to open an invisible yet all too present world to us; to take us through their day, to share their reality, one that for some is hopefully temporary but for others is a whole way of life. Put together, the photos take us from morning to evening and all that happens in between. The other part of this project aims to make more visible Afro-Latinos in DC through panel discussions and interviews. This collection contains documentations from the various exhibit showings and related events. This collection contains documentation from the different exhibit showings and related events.