Grace Lee
"I changed the spelling of my name because I didn't wan't people to think we were interchangeable." (Grace Lee)
In the Angela Shelton (A.S.) documentary the road was very much a white and dark skinned, female, 20-50 year old, and many of which had experienced forms of abuse in relationships. The Grace Lee documentary was primarily a road of women with Asian ancestry from young to old and many of them were particularly smart. The interesting point that I think these documentaries displayed was that there somehow was a connection with names and identity. I believe that the reason there are these connections is that because certain names are common in certain cultures. For example in many Asian cultures women are expected to spend much of their time learning and are expected to follow a particular etiquette. In the A.S. documentary the road was used to unite and find commonality between the Anglea Shelton's and it was also a form of therapy for film producer. The G.L. documentary served for the purpose of finding women with the same name but different characteristics that embraced individuality. In both of these documentaries I did not find the road specifically telling of different races and genders because unlike previous movies we have seen the road itself was merely the miles between the women on their journies and they didn't demonstrate the common theme that women are not to take to the road. Neither women faced any danger. In both of these documentaries we learn that a name is a specific gender identity. You are a women if your name is Grace Lee or Angela Shelton. The name Grace Lee, especially Lee, signify that you are Asian. Angela is a race identity. You are most likely black or white. Perhaps a connection between culture identity for the name Angela is that as someone who has lived in the U.S. abuse is ever so common especially familiar abuse or family abuse. It may seem a bit radical to even say that as Angela Shelton is common U.S. name that for this reason alone one could assume that her identity could be one of the abused along with her gender identity.