Dvera I. Saxton
Dvera I. Saxton, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Anthropology Department at California State University, Fresno, where she teaches on topics related to health, environment, sex, gender and sexuality and coordinates the internship program. She is also an Atlantic Senior Fellow for Equity in Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Institute. Her forthcoming book "The Devil's Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice" is due out from Rutgers University Press in February 2021.
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Farmworkers in 2020 have been deemed essential workers. Yet, the chronic, disabling, deadly and depressing circumstances they endure are not part of the imagery that goes along with the problematic trope of essential workers as superheroes.