A Quick Take Beginning in April 1930 and continuing for some 40 years, the Enka Voice carried regular news of employee engagements and marriages, newborn babies, children’s schooling, fishing and…
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American Enka Corporation Was a Dutch Company: Did It Matter, and If So, How?: Part II
Black Workers at American Enka: Few and Mostly Invisible I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. . . . When they approach me they…
Read moreThe American Enka Corporation Was a Dutch Company: Did It Matter, and If So, How? Part I
My initial intention for this post (one in a series on Enka) was to investigate the presence of Black workers at the Dutch-owned American Enka plant in Buncombe County’s Hominy…
Read moreEngineer by Mail: John Whisnant’s Early Years at American Enka, 1933-1941
NOTE TO READERS: This is the fourth in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, where it…
Read moreEnka Builds a Labor Force: The Magic of Native-Born Mountain Workers
NOTE TO READERS: This is the third in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read more“The Best and Most Prosperous City”: American Enka and the Imagined Transformation of Asheville
NOTE TO READERS: This is the second in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
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