Big Idea Reading List
Start a conversation and create change in your community with a book club. Our resources and ideas are here to support you.
Changing How We Talk About the Civil Rights Movement
by Clarence Lang, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
It's Time to Change How We Talk About Immigrants
by Kandace Creel Falcón, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Minnesota State University Moorhead
- A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez
- The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
- I'm Not Your Perfect American Daughter by Erika Sanchez
- Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
We Need to Elevate Black Women's Stories
by Donna Rae Pearson, Local History Librarian at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
- How to be Less Stupid about Race by Crystal M. Fleming
- Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry
- The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
It's Time for More Representation in STEM
by Sarah Lamm, Colby native and doctoral student in planetary science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff
- Follow the Mars Curiosity rover (Twitter)
- This is What a Scientist Looks Like (Tumblr)
- LGBTQ Scientists are Still Left Out (Nature)
- Science in Kansas 150 Years and Counting (Ad Astra-KS)
- 500 Queer Scientists
- It's Time to Stop Excluding People with Disabilities from Science (Massive Science)
- Why the Universe Needs More Black and Latino Astronomers (Smithsonian Magazine)
- How Ashley Walker Shined a Necessary Light on Black Junior Astronomers (Astronomy in Color)
- The Native Astronomer (News Maven)
- Disabilities Don't Stop These Experts in Science (Science News for Students)