Angela vs. Grace
In Searching for Angela Shelton Angela's quest aimed to find women across the United States who shared her story. She pushed the similarities between the women and ignored their differences such as race and class. Unlike Searching for Angela Shelton , The Grace Lee Project celebrated and worked to discover the differences amongst all of the Grace Lees. Grace Lee didn't focus on one aspect of her subjects' lives, instead, she allowed them to choose what viewers would know about them and how they wanted their stories to be told. Angela Shelton focused only on abuse and in the end, it was what defined the lives of all of the Angela Sheltons.
In both films, the gender of the road is female. Neither road is really classed. Though half of the Angela Sheltons are white and half are black, race doesn't reveal itself as a central theme to the story. Grace Lee focuses mostly on Asian Americans. In general, race is the only thing that the Grace Lees share.