As an attempt to make sense of my findings and to answer why Rosario Dawson seems to be denied a mixed-race subjectivity by mainstream U.S. audiences, I turn to the work of Angharad N. Valdivia (2004).
The Long Island Rail Road system is made up of eleven passenger branches. Three main trunk lines, the Main Line, Montauk Branch, and Atlantic Branch, spin off eight smaller branches.
The county is positioned with New York City, Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, and Long Island Sound to its south; Putnam County to its north; Fairfield County, Connecticut to its east; and Rockland County and Bergen County, New Jersey across the Hudson River to the west.