Abstract. Intraracial diversity among Black Americans provides unique opportunities for students of congressional representation. Studies of representation often conflate African Americans descendants of slavery who identify primarily based on their race, and African immigrants who identify based on their ethnicity as well as their race. It is therefore important that disproportionate rates of congressional representation based on gender and race are particularly striking given the substantive symbolic and racial meaning derived from descriptive representation. Racial representation in professional occupations. The racial wealth gap in the United States is staggering. While the median white family had about 184 people, the median black family had only 23, and the median Latinx family had only 38,000. inequity is rooted in many factors, including.