This collection of Dr. Julian Nava's papers focuses on the following aspects of his life:

1. Cabinet Committee on Mexican American Affairs, 1967

2. Articles written by Nava and articles collected by Nava

3. Nava's 1993 mayoral campaign in Los Angeles

4. Mexico - U.S. trade and immigration

5. Personal genealogy papers

6. Nava's ambassadorship to Mexico

7. Nava's video production projects

8. Nava and the Los Angeles Board of Education; Professor Nava at California State University Northridge.



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Julian Nava was born in Los Angeles in 1927 to a Mexican immigrant family of eight children. After serving in the U.S. Naval Air Corps he went to Pomona College and later received a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1955. Professor Nava's career has combined military service, 12 years of elected public office in the greater Los Angeles area, diverse civic and business involvements as well as the promotion of foreign trade and diplomatic service as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under Presidents Carter and Reagan. Dr. Nava has been professor of history at California State University, Northridge since 1957, a published author, editorial writer at home and abroad for newspapers, a book reviewer and lecturer. He has consulted for school districts and universities in the United States and abroad in the area of cross cultural program development. He has lived and taught in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Spain and Colombia. As a Latin American specialist, he is a Board Member Emeritus of the U.S. Mexico Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Pomona College, his alma mater. As an extension of academic life, he has undertaken produced videos that promote international understanding. Those include: Song of the Basque, Voices of Cuba, as well as television specials on Estonia, China and Serbia.

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