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Barrio

January 19, 2023

For other uses, see Barrio (disambiguation).

Barrio (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbarjo]) is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, architectural or morphological features.[1] In Spain, several Latin American countries and the Philippines, the term may also be used to officially denote a division of a municipality. Barrio is an arabism (Classical Arabic barrī: "wild" via Andalusian Arabic bárri: "exterior").[2]

Usage

 
Sign marking the entrance to Barrio San Antón, one of Ponce's official barrios in Puerto Rico.

In Argentina and Uruguay, a barrio is a division of a municipality officially delineated by the local authority[citation needed] at a later time,[discuss] and it sometimes keeps a distinct character from other areas (as in the barrios of Buenos Aires even if they have been superseded by larger administrative divisions). The word does not have a special socioeconomic connotation unless it is used in contrast to the centro (city center or downtown). The expression barrio cerrado (translated "closed neighborhood") is used to describe small upper-class residential settlements planned with an exclusive criterion and often physically enclosed in walls, that is, a kind of gated community.

In Colombia, the term is used to describe any urban area neighborhood whose geographical limits are determined locally.[citation needed] The term can be used to refer to all classes within society. The term barrio de invasión or comuna is more often used to refer to shanty towns, but the term "barrio" has a more general use.[1]

In Cuba, El Salvador and Spain, the term barrio is used officially to denote a subdivision of a municipio (or municipality); each barrio is subdivided into sectors (sectores).[citation needed]

In the Philippines, the term barrio may refer to a rural village but it may also denote a self-governing community subdivision within a rural or urban area anywhere in the country. A 1975 law replaced the word barrio with barangay, the basic administrative unit of government and possessing an average population of 2,500 people. Barrio, however, is still widely used interchangeably with barangay. Both may refer to rural settlements or urban municipal districts (the latter formerly known as visitas). It is alternatively spelled as baryo, though the preferred spelling is the Spanish one (barrio).[3][4]

In the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the term barrio is an official government designation used to denote a subdivision of a municipio and denotes the government's lowest level and geographically smallest officially recognized administrative unit.[5][6] A barrio in Puerto Rico is not vested with political authority.[7] It may, or may not, be further subdivided into sectors, communities, urbanizaciones, or a combination of these, but such further subdivisions, though popular and common, are unofficial[8]

 
Spanish signs advertising "La Casa de las Novias", "Cuchifritos" and Banco Popular are visible in a row of stores in this photo of El Barrio at Lexington and 116th in Manhattan, New York, USA.

In the mainland United States, the term barrio is used to refer to inner-city areas overwhelmingly inhabited by first-generation Spanish-speaking immigrant families who have not been assimilated into the mainstream American culture. Some examples of this include Spanish Harlem in New York City, East LA in Los Angeles; and Segundo Barrio in Houston. Some of these neighborhoods are simply referred to as just "El Barrio" by the locals, as opposed to using their actual names (Spanish Harlem, East LA, Segundo Barrio, etc).[9]

In Venezuela and the Dominican Republic the term is commonly used to describe slums in the outer rims of big cities such as Caracas and Santo Domingo as well as lower- and middle-class neighborhoods in other cities and towns.[citation needed]

History

Over the centuries, selectness in the Spanish Empire evolved as a mosaic of the various barrios, surrounding the central administrative areas. As they matured, the barrios functionally and symbolically reproduced the city and in some way tended to replicate it. The barrio reproduced the city through providing occupational, social, physical and spiritual space. With the emergence of an enlarged merchant class, some barrios were able to support a wide range of economic levels. This led to new patterns of social class distribution throughout the city. Those who could afford to locate in and around the central plazas relocate. The poor and marginal groups still occupied the spaces at the city's edge.

The desire on the part of the sector popular to replicate a barrio was expressed through the diversity of the populace and functions and the tendency to form social hierarchies and to maintain social control. The limits to replication were mainly social. Any particular barrio could not easily expand its borders into other barrios, nor could it easily export its particular social identity to others. Different barrios provided different products and services to the city, e.g. one might make shoes, while another made cheese. Integration of daily life could also be seen in the religious sector, where a parish and a convento might serve one or more neighborhoods.

The mosaic formed by the barrios and the colonial center continued until the period of independence in Mexico and Latin America. The general urban pattern was one where the old central plaza was surrounded by an intermediate ring of barrios and emerging suburban areas linking the city to the hinterland. The general governance of the city was in the hands of a mayor and city councilors. Public posts were purchased and funds given to the local government and the royal bureaucracy. Fairness and equity were not high on the list of public interests. Lands located on the periphery were given to individuals by local authorities, even if this land was designated for collective uses, such as farming or grazing. This practice of peripheral land expansion laid the groundwork for later suburbanization by immigrants from outside the region and by real estate agents.[10]

At the edge of Hispanic American colonial cities there were places where work, trade, social interaction and symbolic spiritual life occurred. These barrios were created to meet the space needs of local craftsman and the shelter needs of the working class. At times they were designed to meet municipal norms, but they usually responded to functional requirements of the users. Barrios were built over centuries of sociocultural interaction within urban space. In Mexico and in other Latin American countries with strong heritages of colonial centers, the concept of barrio no longer contains the social, cultural and functional attributes of the past. The few surviving barrios do so with a loss of traditional meaning. For most of them the word has become a descriptive category or a generic definition.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Caves, R.W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 31.
  2. ^ Corriente, Federico (1996). "Hacia una historia de los arabismos y otras voces con étimos del romance andalusí o lenguas medio-orientales en el diccionario de la Real Academia Española (segunda parte)" (PDF). Boletín de la Real Academia Española. Royal Spanish Academy. 76 (269): 157. ISSN 0210-4822.
  3. ^ "Baryo". Tagalog-Lang. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  4. ^ Boquet, Yves (2017). The Philippine Archipelago. Springer. pp. 426–427. ISBN 9783319519265.
  5. ^ Ponce. Proyecto Salon Hogar. Map of Barrios of Ponce. Accessed 14 March 2017.
  6. ^ Un Acercamiento Sociohistorico y Linguistico a los Toponimos del Municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Amparo Morales, María T. Vaquero de Ramírez. "Estudios de lingüística hispánica: homenaje a María Vaquero". Page 113. Accessed 14 March 2017.
  7. ^ Historia de Nuestros Barrios: Portugués, Ponce. 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine Rafael Torrech San Inocencio. El Sur a la Vista. elsuralavista.com. 14 February 2010. Accessed 12 February 2011.
  8. ^ Historias de nuestros barrios: una introducción. Rafael Torrech San Inocencio. Lapicero Verde. 10 February 2015. Accessed 14 March 2017.
  9. ^ Pérez, Gina M. Keywords for Latina/o Studies. Edited by Deborah R. Vargas, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. NYU Press. 2017. p. 18, "Barrio." ISBN 9781479892532
  10. ^ a b Siembieda & López Moreno 1998.

Sources

  • Siembieda, W. J.; López Moreno, E. (1998). "Barrios and the Hispanic American city: Cultural value and social representation". Journal of Urban Design. 3 (1): 39–52. doi:10.1080/13574809808724415.
  • Karl Eschbach, Glenn V. Ostir, Kushang V. Patel, Kyriakos S. Markides, James S. Goodwin. "Neighborhood Context and Mortality Among Older Mexican Americans: Is There a Barrio Advantage?" American Journal of Public Health. October 2004. Volume 94. pp. 1807–1812.

External links

  •   The dictionary definition of barrio at Wiktionary

January 19, 2023
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For other uses see Barrio disambiguation Barrio Spanish pronunciation ˈbarjo is a Spanish word that means quarter or neighborhood In the modern Spanish language it is generally defined as each area of a city usually delimited by functional e g residential commercial industrial etc social architectural or morphological features 1 In Spain several Latin American countries and the Philippines the term may also be used to officially denote a division of a municipality Barrio is an arabism Classical Arabic barri wild via Andalusian Arabic barri exterior 2 Contents 1 Usage 2 History 3 See also 4 References 5 Sources 6 External linksUsage Edit Sign marking the entrance to Barrio San Anton one of Ponce s official barrios in Puerto Rico In Argentina and Uruguay a barrio is a division of a municipality officially delineated by the local authority citation needed at a later time discuss and it sometimes keeps a distinct character from other areas as in the barrios of Buenos Aires even if they have been superseded by larger administrative divisions The word does not have a special socioeconomic connotation unless it is used in contrast to the centro city center or downtown The expression barrio cerrado translated closed neighborhood is used to describe small upper class residential settlements planned with an exclusive criterion and often physically enclosed in walls that is a kind of gated community In Colombia the term is used to describe any urban area neighborhood whose geographical limits are determined locally citation needed The term can be used to refer to all classes within society The term barrio de invasion or comuna is more often used to refer to shanty towns but the term barrio has a more general use 1 In Cuba El Salvador and Spain the term barrio is used officially to denote a subdivision of a municipio or municipality each barrio is subdivided into sectors sectores citation needed In the Philippines the term barrio may refer to a rural village but it may also denote a self governing community subdivision within a rural or urban area anywhere in the country A 1975 law replaced the word barrio with barangay the basic administrative unit of government and possessing an average population of 2 500 people Barrio however is still widely used interchangeably with barangay Both may refer to rural settlements or urban municipal districts the latter formerly known as visitas It is alternatively spelled as baryo though the preferred spelling is the Spanish one barrio 3 4 In the U S territory of Puerto Rico the term barrio is an official government designation used to denote a subdivision of a municipio and denotes the government s lowest level and geographically smallest officially recognized administrative unit 5 6 A barrio in Puerto Rico is not vested with political authority 7 It may or may not be further subdivided into sectors communities urbanizaciones or a combination of these but such further subdivisions though popular and common are unofficial 8 Spanish signs advertising La Casa de las Novias Cuchifritos and Banco Popular are visible in a row of stores in this photo of El Barrio at Lexington and 116th in Manhattan New York USA In the mainland United States the term barrio is used to refer to inner city areas overwhelmingly inhabited by first generation Spanish speaking immigrant families who have not been assimilated into the mainstream American culture Some examples of this include Spanish Harlem in New York City East LA in Los Angeles and Segundo Barrio in Houston Some of these neighborhoods are simply referred to as just El Barrio by the locals as opposed to using their actual names Spanish Harlem East LA Segundo Barrio etc 9 In Venezuela and the Dominican Republic the term is commonly used to describe slums in the outer rims of big cities such as Caracas and Santo Domingo as well as lower and middle class neighborhoods in other cities and towns citation needed History EditOver the centuries selectness in the Spanish Empire evolved as a mosaic of the various barrios surrounding the central administrative areas As they matured the barrios functionally and symbolically reproduced the city and in some way tended to replicate it The barrio reproduced the city through providing occupational social physical and spiritual space With the emergence of an enlarged merchant class some barrios were able to support a wide range of economic levels This led to new patterns of social class distribution throughout the city Those who could afford to locate in and around the central plazas relocate The poor and marginal groups still occupied the spaces at the city s edge The desire on the part of the sector popular to replicate a barrio was expressed through the diversity of the populace and functions and the tendency to form social hierarchies and to maintain social control The limits to replication were mainly social Any particular barrio could not easily expand its borders into other barrios nor could it easily export its particular social identity to others Different barrios provided different products and services to the city e g one might make shoes while another made cheese Integration of daily life could also be seen in the religious sector where a parish and a convento might serve one or more neighborhoods The mosaic formed by the barrios and the colonial center continued until the period of independence in Mexico and Latin America The general urban pattern was one where the old central plaza was surrounded by an intermediate ring of barrios and emerging suburban areas linking the city to the hinterland The general governance of the city was in the hands of a mayor and city councilors Public posts were purchased and funds given to the local government and the royal bureaucracy Fairness and equity were not high on the list of public interests Lands located on the periphery were given to individuals by local authorities even if this land was designated for collective uses such as farming or grazing This practice of peripheral land expansion laid the groundwork for later suburbanization by immigrants from outside the region and by real estate agents 10 At the edge of Hispanic American colonial cities there were places where work trade social interaction and symbolic spiritual life occurred These barrios were created to meet the space needs of local craftsman and the shelter needs of the working class At times they were designed to meet municipal norms but they usually responded to functional requirements of the users Barrios were built over centuries of sociocultural interaction within urban space In Mexico and in other Latin American countries with strong heritages of colonial centers the concept of barrio no longer contains the social cultural and functional attributes of the past The few surviving barrios do so with a loss of traditional meaning For most of them the word has become a descriptive category or a generic definition 10 See also Edit Cities portalColonia neighborhood subdivisions in Mexican cities Colonia United States Barrios of Puerto Rico Barangay Bairro BarioReferences Edit Caves R W 2004 Encyclopedia of the City Routledge p 31 Corriente Federico 1996 Hacia una historia de los arabismos y otras voces con etimos del romance andalusi o lenguas medio orientales en el diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola segunda parte PDF Boletin de la Real Academia Espanola Royal Spanish Academy 76 269 157 ISSN 0210 4822 Baryo Tagalog Lang Retrieved 16 August 2017 Boquet Yves 2017 The Philippine Archipelago Springer pp 426 427 ISBN 9783319519265 Ponce Proyecto Salon Hogar Map of Barrios of Ponce Accessed 14 March 2017 Archived Un Acercamiento Sociohistorico y Linguistico a los Toponimos del Municipio de Ponce Puerto Rico Amparo Morales Maria T Vaquero de Ramirez Estudios de linguistica hispanica homenaje a Maria Vaquero Page 113 Accessed 14 March 2017 Archived Historia de Nuestros Barrios Portugues Ponce Archived 2014 09 03 at the Wayback Machine Rafael Torrech San Inocencio El Sur a la Vista elsuralavista com 14 February 2010 Accessed 12 February 2011 Historias de nuestros barrios una introduccion Rafael Torrech San Inocencio Lapicero Verde 10 February 2015 Accessed 14 March 2017 Archived Perez Gina M Keywords for Latina o Studies Edited by Deborah R Vargas Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Lawrence La Fountain Stokes NYU Press 2017 p 18 Barrio ISBN 9781479892532 a b Siembieda amp Lopez Moreno 1998 Sources EditSiembieda W J Lopez Moreno E 1998 Barrios and the Hispanic American city Cultural value and social representation Journal of Urban Design 3 1 39 52 doi 10 1080 13574809808724415 Karl Eschbach Glenn V Ostir Kushang V Patel Kyriakos S Markides James S Goodwin Neighborhood Context and Mortality Among Older Mexican Americans Is There a Barrio Advantage American Journal of Public Health October 2004 Volume 94 pp 1807 1812 External links Edit The dictionary definition of barrio at Wiktionary Retrieved from https en 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