Urban Youth Gangs and Globalization (Political Economy of Youth Gangs and Marginalization Processes in the United States and the Caribbean); Comparative Study in Medicine, Health Care and Society; Transformation of Socioracial Hierarchies in the Americas (Caribbean, the United States and Brazil); Kinship, Family and Religion in the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States; Formations of Colonial Modernity and Global Inequalities; Sociopolitical Violence, Marginalization Processes, and Post-Colonial Identity in the Caribbean and Latin America; and Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts in Social and Behavioral Sciences