These images suggest some of the key topics and issues addressed in my upcoming post on the thousands of women who worked at American Enka from the 1930s onward: recruitment…
Read moreThe Enka Voice in White and (Rarely) Black
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…
Read moreAmerican 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…
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