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This review is from: Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil (Hardcover)
O'Dougherty has captured the spirit of an era when middle-class dreams met rampant inflation head-on. She analyses the role neighborhoods, ethnic origins, government programs, and personal connections played in the widely differing fates of her informants, but time and again theories give way to the fascinating concrete details of Brazilians trying to get ahead, or merely to stay afloat, in the midst of a swollen tide of economic chaos. Implicit in her critique is the notion that the dream itself was highly suspect, and detrimental to the Brazilian ethos, but Hey! Doesn't everyone want to go to Disneyworld?
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Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil by Maureen O'Dougherty (Paperback - February 18, 2002)
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