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Coined by DiAngelo, white fragility gives a name to the ubiquitous practice in which white people react with a range of defensive moves that compensate for even the slightest distress caused by challenges to their racial worldviews and/or to their racial innocence. White fragility is the “state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves” (DiAngelo 2011, 54). White fragility is implied when George Yancy describes white people as “not in crisis vis-a-vis their whiteness; they are under constant therapeutic reprieve, assured there is nothing problematic about whiteness, about their white selves” (Yancy 2014, 62).