Pilipino cultural nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. Through performances and parodies of them, these celebrations of national identity through music, dance and theatrical narratives reemphasize what it means to be Filipino American.

Pilipino Cultural Nights at American campuses have been a rite of passage for youth culture and a source of local community pride since the 1980s. This title uses interviews and participant observer techniques to consider the relationship between the invention of performance repertoire and the development of diasporic identification.