This Promised Land, El Salvador - Hardcover

Cagan, Steve

9780813516790: This Promised Land, El Salvador

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081351679X ISBN 13: 9780813516790

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1991

First Edition, 01991, first printing, SIGNED by both authors on the first page, an otherwise like-new, unread, unopened, unmarked slightly oversized hardcover, with an equally fine unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket with a sticker stating: " Cody Books Autographed Copy Berkeley, CA.", from Rutgers. By Beth Cagan and Steve Cagan, photos by Steve. 200 pages. Illustrated. Approx. 7" X 10" X 3/4" ISBN 0-8135-1679-X.

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About the Author:

Biography
Steve Cagan was born in New York City, grew up in low-income areas of Brooklyn and the Bronx, and went to the Bronx High School of Science and City College. After getting a Master’s degree in US history from Indiana University, he returned to NYC for several years.

In 1970, he and his wife, Beth, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to work as regional organizers for New University Conference. They raised two daughters there, and they have lived there to this day.

Steve’s photographic work has always been primarily connected to social justice issues. Among major projects, he has documented aspects of working life for working-class people in Ohio, as well as working on a project to explore the effects of factory closings in the area. A visit to all the countries of Indochina in 1974 convinced him of the possibility of using photography as a contribution to movements for social change.

Steve’s main projects over the last thirty years have been in Latin America—in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, and for the last ten years, Colombia. His most important theme in all this work has been the everyday resistance of grassroots people to the economic and social problems they have to confront.

Steve was a photography professor at Rutgers University (1985-1993), and has taught courses and workshops in a number of institutions in the US and Latin America. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships, and several awards from the Ohio and New Jersey Arts Councils, among others.

He has exhibited and published on four continents.

From Library Journal:

This interesting work, illustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs, documents the development of an El Salvadorean refugee community, Colomoncagua, in Honduras. These 8000 people, who lived for more than ten years in Honduras before returning en masse to a new location in El Salvador in 1990, achieved a strong sense of community, social and economic development, and grassroots democracy. The authors, through field research, identify elements contributing to their success, including shared values, the influences of international personnel in their camp, and the high value they placed on flexible solutions. The community offers a model for other poor people in the region to emulate. Highly recommended.
- Roderic A. Camp, Central Coll., Pella, Ia.
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