Tearing Down Oakhurst: An Oral History of Gentrification

https://youtu.be/aKNlz71yqjI

Premiered March 11, 2014, Atlanta, Ga. Revised cut screened in Washington, D.C., February 18, 2016.

© 2014-2016 D.S. Rotenstein

What gentrification looks like

I think gentrification has made the neighborhood less of a neighborhood — Oakhurst resident, April 2012.

video-coverLast week the National Council on Public History released a post on its History@Work site previewing clips from the rough cut of my documentary video, Oakhurst: An Oral History of Gentrification. In its Facebook update announcing the post, the organization noted: “This is what gentrification looks like.”

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