Racing the Road
When watching both The Grace Lee Project and Searching for Angela Shelton, it was obvious that both films were a little biased in terms of race. When GRace Lee was interviewing people about other Grace Lees they knew, the amount of stereotypical answers that were given for Asian American women was astonishing and sort of revolting. It seemed to me that the people asked about Grace Lees obviously had no relationship with them whatsoever and were kind of ingnorant. Both films dealt mainly in terms of their own race (Asian American, and Caucasian or African American). Latino Americans were strictly exempt; some could say that had to do with each person's name, however as a group of people, Latinos were excluded. Also notable was the fact that with Grace Lee, her road trip primarily contained women and her goal in the film was about finding the differences and uniqueness in each Grace Lee. More in Angela Shelton's case, men drove the road. Angela was searching for her own identity and was trying to unite women in finding similarities, I believe that her main goal was to find forgiveness from her father, an abuser, and he was the main driving force in the film. It was a nice contrast in seeing both films because although they had seemingly similar purposes, in terms of identities, the women were starkly night and day which greatly added to each film giving them much individuality.