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Mexican folklore traditions, folk songs, and folk dances had been taught within Mexican colonias (neighborhoods), today known as barrios, since before the 1930s, usually through the efforts of a single individual in the community, in church halls and mutual aid society halls, but not in the public schools.
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.