Paul Spickard is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara. W. Jeffrey Burroughs is Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University, Hawaii. The major idea of the text is to discuss ethnic processes of connection and identity as they affect individuals and groups. The reading was assigned to give us a more complete definition of ethnicity. An arrangement of people who see themselves as biologically and historically connected. We are a People was published on January 7th, 2000, under the full title We Are a People: Narrative and Multiplicity in Constructing Ethnic Identity. This course strives to teach students that culture and society are multifaceted. Thus, this text relates by providing an explanation of how the