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"A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs argues that the mid-20th-century Chicago kitchenette helped redefine how the city was understood, both locally and nationally — through its use in policy, in discourse, in the cultural landscape, and in the built environment."

"Chicago set national housing policy in large part because so many of the city's power brokers sat on federal boards. The National Association of Real Estate Boards (NAREB) was headquartered in Chicago at a key moment, so something like the template restrictive covenant issued by the Chicago Real Estate Board became the national standard. The hyper-segregated Chicago of the mid-20th century was partly a response to the Great Migration, which ran from the 1910s into the 1960s but peaked across the 1920s, '30s, '40s, and '50s. That's when mass migration to the city crested — and the most consequential demographic shift by far was Black Southerners arriving in Chicago, bringing with it a further entrenchment of racial segregation."

"Because this is happening at the same time as a decline in new housing construction, people start converting buildings into what become known as kitchenette apartments. So we see the built environment; we see policy responding, or not responding, to the needs of this population shift; and we see artists sitting with these experiences and representing them out. Some of the most notable, award-winning texts — Richard Wright's Native Son, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun — featured the kitchenette. Then we have the actual needs of the residents living there, the needs of the landlords, and how those come into conflict at points."

"There's a way Chicago is being understood at the mid-20th century. We think of the Chicago School of Sociology, for instance, but there's something happening in the more vernacular architectural built environment that is being symbolized through the discourse around the kitchenette and its representation."

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