1. race and place: investigating racial differences in the spatial patterning of mortality through social capital theory Open Access Author: Prather, Chris Thomas Title: race and place: investigating racial differences in the spatial patterning of mortality through social capital theory Graduate Program: Sociology Keywords: social capitalracespatial autocorrelationspatial autoregressioninequalitymortality File: Download Prather_Thesis_FINAL.pdf Committee Members: Glenn A Firebaugh, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorStephen Matthews, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorBarrett Alan Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorJohn Iceland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor