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.
Long Island is divided into two counties: Nassau County to the west and Suffolk County on the eastern flank of the island. This doesn't include the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, which are geographically part of Long Island but politically part of New York City.