A Footnotes reading guide by Frances Garrett for two chapters from Joseph Cheah's book, Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation (Oxford University Press, 2011), namely, the “Introduction” and Chapter 3, “Adaptation of  Vipassana Meditation by Convert Buddhists and Sympathizers”. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The Footnotes series is created at the University of Toronto, in Canada, with support from eCampus Ontario.