[origins and provocations: Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong; Fly to Freedom: The Art of the Golden Venture Refugees Teacher Resource Packet by The Museum of Chinese in the Americas; Love/Conjure Blues by Sharon Bridgforth; salt fish girl by Larissa Lai; The Snakehead: an Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe; The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil; promptings by Chris Abani, Meena Alexander & Thomas Glave]