UT Libraries Exhibits

Showing U.S. Latine LGBTQIA+ Narratives

This exhibition will offer an insight into the formation of the Latine queer community and the pivotal role it played in the LGBTQIA+ rights movement at the turn of the 21st century.

Chicanas/os in the Texas Labor Movement

This exhibit explores three Latino/a unionization movements in Texas.

This exhibit examines how U.S. Latine activists employ three communication techniques–sound bites, hooking, and flagging–throughout various media to connect civil, labor, and LGBTQ+ movements 1965-2003.

In this exhibition, three collections are presented that include the bibliographic material generated from the institutional work of the Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado (Human Rights Office of the Archbishop).

Examples from the Benson’s Cartonera Collection

This exhibition contextualizes the importance of cartoneras within Latin American and Caribbean cultural production, particularly as a publishing outlet for socially excluded voices.

A Cultural Guide of the Iskonawa Language Collection in AILLA

This exhibition offers a cultural guide to the Iskonawa Language Collection in the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America.

1775-1929

This exhibit showcases some of the most complex, sometimes overlooked, yet nevertheless critical transformations that impacted people’s lives across Mexico and its “neighbors” in the U.S., Europe, South America, and the Caribbean.

A Benson Centennial Exhibit

To mark the Benson’s centennial, this exhibition looks at knowledge production from different communities in the Americas. Special attention is paid to community stories, craftwork, harvest and subsistence, medicine, and flora and fauna.

This exhibit is about the Honorable Dr. Eric Eustace Williams (1911-1981), a scholar and statesman that led Trinidad and Tobago for over a quarter of a century. He oversaw the country’s independence from Britain in 1962 and 1976 transition to a Republic. Williams served as Prime Minister until his death in 1981.

1521-1821

This exhibit traces the cultural, social, and political evolution of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from the fall of Moctezuma’s Tenochtitlan until the rise of Iturbide’s Mexican Empire.

A Window into the Visita of 1765

This exhibition explores the localized consequences of the royal inspection, or visita general, administered by José de Gálvez in New Spain from 1765-1771.

This exhibit explores the history of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876), a colossal figure in Mexico’s post-independence politics with a legacy of losing half the nation’s territory to the United States.

Pastorelas were commonly an oral tradition, rarely being transcribed to paper. This digital exhibit highlights the rare, beautifully written, and illustrated pastorela, El triunfo de Jesús contra la lengua del diablo : pastorela en cuatro actos by Manuel Antonio Zayas from 1853. It is available at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Room of the Benson Latin American Collection.

An exhibit highlighting the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection's zines to analyze the intersectionality of Latinidad and food studies.

The early twentieth century brought political, economic, and social changes to Peru. After the devastating losses experienced from the War of the Pacific in the late 1800s, the need to reconstruct and reform Peruvian society lent itself to the economic opportunities modernization presented. This exhibition of postcards from the 1920s show how the past and present converged in Peru at this critical juncture.

Selections from His Archive

This exhibition reflects upon the impact and legacy of poet, priest, liberation theologist, sculptor, and activist Ernesto Cardenal.

on 19th Century Latin America

Exhibition on Latin America during the 19th Century

This exhibition by the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen tells the stories of women who lived in exile in the refugee camps of Honduras during the Salvadoran Civil War.

Territories in Dispute, Identities in Question

The maps presented in this exhibition serve as visual histories of Mexican territory, culture, and identity through three centuries of transformation. Through image and text, these documents trace the intertwined and often contentious relationships between indigenous and European, civil and religious, and “national” and foreign, in Mexico’s evolution from colonial territory to modern state.

in 19th-Century Latin America

This exhibit reveals the region’s tumultuous and transformative 19th-century journeys towards the formation (s) of State, Subject and Self.

Latin America's 19th Century

The exhibit begins with the dissolution of Spain’s Atlantic Monarchy in 1808 and continues into the early 20th century, tracing out how revolutions in technology, medicine, and political systems transformed lives, communities, and places.