Non-white Authors with white MCs? There have been many instances of white authors with BIPOC MCs, but who are examples of the reverse?

I'm a Non-Black POC, and I was thinking about representation in the Romance genre and my personal line of what I find problematic about white authors writing POC characters but I'm also thinking into white defaultism. White defaultism in how if MCs are white, they hardly ever need description about their whiteness, but if an MC is BIPOC, there's typically significant effort in describing the color of their skin, the texture of their hair, their proximity to their respective cultures/nationalities.

I sometimes feel wary when white people write non-white MCs, but I don't have enough examples of non-white authors writing white MCs to know if I would feel similarly wary -- is this because of white defaultism? The idea that a character is *understood* / *assumed* white unless they are explicitly coded otherwise?

Do any white readers feel odd when non-white authors write about white characters?

I'd love some other opinions and insights as to how other readers of all ethnicities feel about representation in Romance in general.

Some white authors who write BIPOC character examples off the top of my head:

- Liz Tomforde

- Casey McQuiston

- Annika Martin

Who are examples of white authors who write BIPOC characters well vs those who don't?

Who are examples of non-white authors who write white characters well vs those who don't? (I'm not sure I can think of many examples of this. When is a white character ill represented?)

Admittedly, reading Romance is an exercise in escapism/entertainment for me, and I tend to not want to engage much with socio-political ideas within the text itself in this genre. I read more intentionally in other genres/spaces for that.

Apologies if this discussion post is a little disorganized. I'm still not entirely sure how to think into these questions, and I'd love to hear what other people think or if anyone else has considered similar things.