{"product_id":"a-kitchenette-to-fit-your-needs-housing-chicagos-great-migration-hardback-9781479840885","title":"A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs; Housing Chicago's Great Migration (Hardback) 9781479840885","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHousing Chicago's Great Migration\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmani C. Morrison (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479840885\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 41 b\/w images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.632 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story not just of the kitchenette as a space, but of kitchenette living as a practice. With the archive she has meticulously assembled, Amani Morrison seamlessly moves between records and literary readings to reshape how we approach the lifeworlds of buildings.\" – Adrienne Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shows how small kitchenette apartments in twentieth century Chicago played big roles in skewing opportunities and life chances along racial lines. A deft blend of extensive archival research and sophisticated cultural and textual critique, \u003ci\u003eA Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs\u003c\/i\u003e shows how residential segregation and capitalist exploitation enabled landlords to profit from relegating Black Chicagoans to residency in overpriced, overcrowded, and unsafe dwellings. Yet Amani Morrison also shows how oppressive kitchenette conditions and affordances inspired creative Black painters, playwrights, poets, photographers, and fiction writers to record and register the ways in which the contours of places shaped and reflected relations between races.\" – George Lipsitz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUncovers how Chicago's kitchenette apartments shaped housing, race, and urban life in the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the city's densely populated, segregated South Side. Typically featuring a communal hallway bathroom, a cooktop tucked into a closet, chronic overcrowding, and exploitative rents, kitchenettes gained widespread fame and notoriety in news reports, housing code campaigns, and the works of celebrated Black artists including Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, and Richard Wright. They also preceded and paved the way for Chicago's notorious public housing projects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first book-length cultural analysis of the kitchenette within Chicago's history of housing, race, and urban life. Both materially and symbolically significant, the kitchenette existed at the nexus of the Great Migration and the Great Depression, of housing precarity and domestic innovation, of racial capitalism and racial uplift. Drawing on a rich archive of sources from housing court records and documentary photographs to literature, journalism, and visual art, Amani Morrison reveals how Bronzeville's kitchenettes served residents, landlords, artists, and institutions, accommodating overlapping but often divergent needs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough her theory of \"Black spatial affordances,\" Morrison illuminates how Black Chicagoans transformed constraint into creativity. Blending history, architecture, and cultural analysis, \u003ci\u003eA Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs\u003c\/i\u003e recasts the kitchenette as central to Chicago's urban modernity and to the making of Black everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591106785560,"sku":"9781479840885","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-kitchenette-to-fit-your-needs-housing-chicagos-great-migration-hardback-9781479840885","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}