Blue Skies

Somewhere over the rainbow, once you’re through, there are tall skyscrapers like ladders to the heavens, the diamond-studded cities glow in a dazzling neon hue. But over the rainbow, people are white, shrunken rights, Long, grueling days followed by lonesome, weary nights. Beloved faces with alien minds; frustration and fright. And there, over the rainbow, lies the great American dream beneath the blue skies, and our dreams; do they look the same as we strive to make them come true?

Following Bangladeshi families in Florida, Blue Skies documents the complex balancing act between custom and assimilation faced by immigrants and comments on the lived reality for so many whose arrival in a hyper-consumerist society has been far from what they had expected and their children having their own issues of identity.

In the context of escalating racial tension and violence, the young generation of immigrants are constantly exposed to celebratory discourses of multiculturalism and variety and wonder things such, “Will we ever get back to how we used to be? What is my identity? Where is my alliance? With whom do I all lie? ", "Is our racial division simply by binary?" and "Is there room for Bangladeshi Americans? "As a result, these youngsters’ exterior environment is shaping their internal sense of self. Their mental health concerns are frequently classified as being exclusively indicative of cultural, social, or political conflict since they are seen as a result of their attempts to fit in with their families and the demands of American culture. That frequently results in depression or urges to harm oneself. Research shows that Bangladeshi American students have high level of anxiety and depression and between the age of 18-24 students have the highest suicide attempts.

In conclusion, Blue Sky depicts a group of people that investigate racial trauma and inequity using a combination of psychoanalytic theory, case studies, critical race studies, and legal analysis. Additionally, it is a series that uses actual case studies and commentary from Bangladeshi Americans in comparative ethnic contexts as its major source material spanning the humanities and clinic domains.