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.
With a rich history dating back to the early 1600s, Long Island has an interesting place in history - it was inhabited by Native American Indians; a Revolutionary War-period spy ring operated along the shore; and agriculture made way for industry.