Minority spaces, in both spatial and psychic senses, are the heartland of national self-imagination in the United States. US history can easily be conceived as the story of expansions and contractions, assemblies and diffusions. These spatial stories, heavily shaped through Euro-American ideologies of race and gender, constitute that foundation of American politics and social expression. Without them, no tour bus would ever pull up to the Greek colonnade that covers Plymouth Rock, representative of a miniscule minority that transformed itself into the United States.