From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe black/female/Russian etc experiencethe black/female/Russian etc experienceKNOW somethingevents or knowledge shared by the members of a particular society or group of people No writer expresses the black experience with such passion as Toni Morrison. → experience
Examples from the Corpus
the black/female/Russian etc experience• The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole.• It must recognize the validity of the black experience in a white-dominated world.• The powers that be were not interested in continuing that serious focus on the black experience. 