Dr. Ram-n Flecha is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Social and Educational Research, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. He has published extensively on education and critical social theory, including Critical Education in the New Information Age (with Manuel Castells, Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Henry A. Giroux, and Paul Willis: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and OModern & Postmodern Racism: Dialogic Approach and Anti-Racist PedagogiesO, published in 1999 in Harvard Educational Review (Vol. 69, 2).