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In Chicano culture, barrios are identified by given names that in some way describe a characteristic of the neighborhood or reflect its history.
In her words, “Besides rendering a Chicano pinto presence in the rhythms of speech, Santana [the movie character] represents it in the stylized walk and prose of a pinto, a stance honed in the corridors behind prison walls or in the barrios of East L.A.” (1993, 130).
The artistic movement of painting murals in Chicano barrios.
In San Fernando, also known as San Fer, two very early barrios were La Rana and El Bajillo (The Frog; The Little Low One).
In the early 1900s, Mexican communities were called colonias, as they are in Mexico today, but at some point after World War II, Chicano neighborhoods became known as barrios.