Professor Ellie Hisama's 1993 paper "Postcolonialism on the make: the music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie and John Zorn" has been quoted in two recent articles on David Bowie (following Bowie's death on January 10 of this year):

"For Bowie, the Thin White Duke, inspiration was black" (Economic Times)

Ruth Tam, "How David Bowie's 'China Girl' used racism to fight racism" (Washington Post)