Richard Wright, anyone?

I'm in the process of writing a thesis on Richard Wright's "Black Power" (among other things). I know it's hard to come up with anything original on the subject of Wright but he is virtually unknown in my country; as far as I know, only translations of "Native Son" and "The Long Dream" were published several decades ago.
Still, since I'm kind of out of touch with American life/academia/etc, I'm having doubts whether what I'm doing makes any sense at all. Do you think Wright is worth studying today at all? Are his views on race, humanity, the Third World worth discussing? Do you read Richard Wright, guys? Apparently no-one does on /lit/ ;)

hell yes. just finished Black Boy the other day. I fucking loved it. His parallel past-self and self diction is amazing. And his themes on loneliness, self yearning, and self realization fucking blew my mind.

I just studied "12 Million Black Voices" last semester and I've always loved "Black Boy." The Professor teaching the class specializes in African-American and GLBT literature, and he's been very impressed with Richard Wright. Still, that class was about exploring the African-American identity through the centuries, so the book might have been uniquely suited to our purposes. I would say "yes," but very cautiously.

Thanks :) I think it's interesting how 12 Million Black Voices and Black Boy tell basically the same story on different levels of universality.