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Barrios are sometimes called ghettos; even though there are very negative and sometimes few positive attributes to living in barrios, they can’t always be presumed to be ghettos in the sense of places where a group is forced to live against its will.
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.
Some of the oldest barrios can be found in major cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, El Paso, and San Antonio.
Some barrios are only a few blocks, whereas others encompass large urban areas.
The early murals were considered public folk art because of the common themes of community and civil rights and because most of the murals were located in working-class neighborhoods and urban barrios.