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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unraveling -- CRITICAL OVERVIEW: A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy -- Part I: THE INTIMACY OF POWER -- 1. "FAMILY IS EVERYTHING": Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil, Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections -- 2. AMONG MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia -- 3. DREAMING WITH GUNS: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro's Brazil -- 4. WHITENESS HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTENSIFIED BRAZIL'S REACTIONARY WAVE -- Part II. CORRUPTION AND CRIME -- 5. CRUEL PESSIMISM: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class -- 6. THE EFFECTS OF SOME RELIGIOUS AFFECTS: Revolutions in Crime -- 7. "LOOK AT THAT": Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands That Have Become a Sea (of Money) -- 8. "THE OIL IS OURS": Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics -- Part III. INFRASTRUCTURES OF HOPE -- 9. DESPAIRING HOPES (AND HOPEFUL DESPAIR) IN AMAZONIA -- 10. TEMPERED HOPES: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife's Alternative Music Scene -- 11. WITHERING DREAMS: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil's Once-Rising Poor -- 12. BOLSONARO WINS JAPAN: Support for the Far Right among Japanese Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants -- Part IV. OLD CHALLENGES, NEW ACTIVISM -- 13. HOLDING THE WAVE: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience amid the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro -- 14. LGBTTI ELDERS IN BRAZIL: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance, and Vulnerability -- 15. DISGUST AND DEFIANCE: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash -- 16. "BARBIE E KEN CIDADÃOS DE BEM": Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX