post-racial society or(?) liberation, and heads up in space (like mars and the moon and stuff)

A central element of Coleman’s argument is that race can be (and is) used to do any number of things by any number of different actors. She holds up the example of Obama’s articulation of a new American ‘bi-racial’ political subject as a model for the American body-politic, and closes with Snead’s apocalyptic white-america-needs-black-america-as-its-foil vision. Coleman’s discussion is based largely in theoretical and philosophical texts and in literature; likewise her discussion of Obama centers around his mobilization of narratives and tropes.
Fanon, on the other hand, is focused on Algerian national liberation from French colonial power. The veil can be (and is) used to do different things by different actors, but all of these functions fall along the line of colonized vs. colonizer. Fanon, like the women insurgents carrying out bomb strikes with no insurgent ‘character’ to re-enact, is grounded only in the specific circumstances of the situation of the Algerian colony at that time. He discusses only the facts on the ground and the dreams and mindset of Algerian and French subjects in a way that is only one step removed from the facts on the ground.
How are these two differences between the two authors - what I will call multiculturalism vs. liberation and theoretical rootedness vs. real rootedness - related? I think these oppositions need to be complicated and nuanced connections across each opposition and between the two need to be teased out.