Words similar to barrio

Example sentences for: barrio

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In his autobiography, Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza writes about the pochos he found in Sacramento, California, in the second decade of the twentieth century: “They had learned to speak English of sorts and could still speak Spanish, also of sorts.
Arthur Rubel writes about the supportive social environment provided by the palomilla of young coming-of-age Chicanos in the barrio of New Lots in south Texas.
Lico can offer a lot of input from the perspective of a barrio person, and he's also someone who is always helping other people."
But it is known that it was used as an initiation ritual among friends and peers, to show solidarity and allegiance to a particular barrio.
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