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Then that's not whitewashing, it's the opposite since white characters are played by non-white actors. Cases like that don't generally have a term aside from "race change".

The term whitewashing arose because due to films made in western countries, having a higher trend of making the characters white. The inverse of that is rarer, but has been happening as of late due to creators wanting to show diversity.