Philosophy has remained remarkably untouched by the debates over multiculturalism, canon reform, and ethnic di versity racking the academy; both demographically and con ceptually, it is one of the "whitest" of the humanities. Blacks, for example, constitute only about 1 percent of philosophers in North American universities-a hundred or so people out of more than ten thousand-and there are even fewer Latino, Asian American, and Native American philosophers.