Angela Shelton and Grace Lee
In both Searching for Angela Shelton and The Grace Lee Project, the filmmakers use the road as a tool to guide them on their quest for some sort of identity. I felt that Angela Shelton's quest was more about self discovery through relating her story to all of the other Angelas', and facing her father to gain closure about her past. Grace Lee seemed to have a greater sense of who she was, and she wanted to reassure her identity through meeting other Grace Lee's and contrasting their different stories. The road is "raced" in The Grace Lee Project in that most of the Graces are Asian American, and the film dealt with people's views of the Grace Lee's they knew. The road is "gendered" in both films in that they are both about women searching for some sort of identity through meeting other women and extending their stories to women in general.