Maintaining democratic stability and respect for human rights in the United States is becoming
a challenge in the face of current crises. In order to meet this challenge Leo Kempe examines
the influence of ethnicity and living space on the status of democracy. In the context of the
Black Lives Matter movement he uses the examples of Washington D.C. and Minneapolis
Minnesota to illuminate how discrimination against African Americans in U.S. neighborhoods
leads to the destabilization of the democratic system. His analysis provides insight into the
connections between the lives of African Americans geography and democracy in the United
States. This is because prevailing stereotypes alienation and exclusion lead to stark social
inequality.
