Grace Lee
Searching for Angela Shelton and the Grace Lee Project are both films where women take to the road in search for something meaningful in their life. Angela Shelton is looking for closure in her life in relation childhood abuse and incest, whlie Grace Lee is looking for answers in relation to her name and what it means to be an Asian-American women in the United States and the stereotypes related to it.
In both films, the women are doing the "driving" of both the road and the actual film and in this way they are breaking away from the idea of the male protagonist being on the road. The road for both Grace and Angela involves race. Grace Lee specifically looks at race and it is the central factor that brings her to these specific women. The one thing that Grace Lee does not do which creates a "raced" film is that she does not account for the Grace Lees who are not Asian American women. She does not mention the possibility of women of other races marrying into the last name. In Angela Shelton's film forgets about Angela Sheltons who are not black or white. In this way, the road is raced because women who are not of the majority race(s) contained by the film are left out and are not told.